My comment after reading the Taipei Times editorial on a legislator who insisted on speaking Hokkien:
While it's true that language is not just a tool but a marker of identity, it remains to be seen if pragmatic Taiwanese people will accept the inconvenience of having to communicate among themselves through interpreters, while already having a lingua franca they all understand. Just as Hokkien became the language of Taiwanese identity by replacing numerous other languages both Sinitic and Austronesian, Mandarin does have a chance to become a language of Taiwanese identity once day. Or perhaps it already has.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/10/06/2003765596
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