They simply hold suspending it so what’s the level?
The purpose is to drive ongoing growth of the chain and create concrete factors at which new social consensus for adjustments to the blockchain have to be sought, and the place customers should make a selection about which chain they’re on going ahead.
On this manner, you keep away from folks simply staying on the first chain as a kind of “abstain” vote, which is the pure inclination if customers need to make a tough selection in some unspecified time in the future.
After all, you might fork the chain and take away the issue bomb, however customers nonetheless need to actively select to make use of that fork as a substitute (one the place no future main breaking adjustments are ever really ‘required’, now).
Issue bomb removes the “default selection” of not making a selection, which was one thing they envisioned needing, particularly on the transition to PoS from PoW.