Agree, it is two fold though.
Yes, royalties are a keystone but having your work just flipped from A>Z to get said royalties isn't.
A collector who holds the work *probably* has more inherent appreciation or value to the artist than the dolphins that flip em like seals.
This is where the collision of NFT and ART (as NFT) battle out. Artists are their own valve limiter so they will create regardless...they might not mint everything either.
But we've see NFT's on the whole just rinse out art in favour of speculative gambling, so this is probably why they try to abolish the royalty component. And with AI in the mix --- who is actually benefitting from instant ramen creative throwups?
tldr; Royalties are essential for artists.
Not all NFT's are art and therein lies the difficulty.
But what we can all agree on is the ability to make it seamless for artists to get paid over their lifetime.
*I will manually pay royalties to the artists if the marketplaces don't - because that's what real artists do.*
We all know the social layer of this place is strained - so what brings the culture back? Artists. What brings the artists back? Royalties.