If you always tip (like I do) you get very highly rated by the drivers. It doesn't matter how busy it is or what event is happening, you'll get an Uber.
We don't have a definition of reality for it to follow. If it worked based on facts, 90 percent of news stories would be called fake. Every story with "anonymous sources" and other fabricated nonsense unethical trash pay PR firms to spread would all get flagged.
"They also said sunlight and death were on notice and might also pretend they can cancel something they have zero power over."
They've been trying to kill bitcoin harder than they've ever tried to kill anything in the history of banking. They've wasted billions trying. Now they have to commit to billions in negative media coverage to just barely keep it from exploding again. Every time that media hatred lapses a few months, it jumps like a rocket.