Except in this case, this is going against presumably 51% of the miners and changes take much longer to implement and activate on Bitcoin (taproot activation for example will be done over a very long period and needs a very high threshold).
Going from PoW to PoS in such a small timeframe is pretty aggressive no matter how you look at it. As a user, I really hope it works out without major issues.
> and changes take much longer to implement and activate on Bitcoin
That's a funny way of saying BTC doesn't innovate.
> Going from PoW to PoS in such a small timeframe is pretty aggressive no matter how you look at it.
It's been the plan for years. I first heard of it in 2017 and if I'm not mistaken I think it was also in the whitepaper. So it's neither coming out of the blue or an aggressive timeframe.
> That's a funny way of saying BTC doesn't innovate.
Or another way of saying you can expect some stability (and majority consensus) when there's more than a trillion dollars worth of value at stake.
It's been discussed for a longtime, yes, but the expectation is that it would roll out in phases over the next year or two, not rushed out because of a potential 51% attack.
Bear in mind the PoS network is already running, with 100,000 validators and $6 billion staked, after years of R&D. This last bit is relatively simple.
Going from PoW to PoS in such a small timeframe is pretty aggressive no matter how you look at it. As a user, I really hope it works out without major issues.