You mention the witness discount, but you don't make a clear point
Are you advocating for a fork to remove, or perhaps just decrease, that discount?
I'm open minded about different *realistic* plans to improve the chain - e.g. decreasing the size of the UTXO set - but your response didn't include any practical plan
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I was not trying to propose a way forward in that regard to be honest, but I bring it up in relation to the removal of the 80 bytes limits.
I don't think It can be argued that lifting the OP_RETURN limit serves the purpose of mining decentralization thanks to a leaner UTXO set, precisely because of it being more expensive to embed larger arbitrary data in outputs.
Historical developments in Bitcoin Core make me suspicious of the argument that OP_RETURN should have no limits in order to protect the UTXO set. Had this been the goal, Core devs would have tried to somehow contain the effects of ordinals. Since this didn't happen, I can only conclude that v30 is removing this relay policy fllter for other reasons which I do not at this point understand.
With regards to mining decentralization, I think the community should focus its time and energy on StratumV2, but this entails talking to miners and convincing them of the benefits of block template selection etc etc