2M2B isn’t suitable as an ethanol replacement because:
it’s metabolized very slowly and isn’t exhaled like diethyl ether so it lasts a couple days, which is too long
the smell/taste is somewhat bad
...but maybe I should’ve included it in the post. (As a tertiary alcohol, it can’t be dehydrogenated by alcohol dehydrogenase, which is one way to avoid aldehyde production. It’s worth noting that tertiary alcohols produce the same effect too despite steric issues being plausible.)
2M2B isn’t suitable as an ethanol replacement because:
it’s metabolized very slowly and isn’t exhaled like diethyl ether so it lasts a couple days, which is too long
the smell/taste is somewhat bad
...but maybe I should’ve included it in the post. (As a tertiary alcohol, it can’t be dehydrogenated by alcohol dehydrogenase, which is one way to avoid aldehyde production. It’s worth noting that tertiary alcohols produce the same effect too despite steric issues being plausible.)