Core released 29.3 last week
As a former Knot-runner I moved to 29.3 instead of 30.X to not follow the OP_RETURN changes, am I wrong in assuming this?
Honest question
Hopefully someone smarter than me can chime in to help you out - I had to sync a new node last week and was torn about what to run. Ultimately, realized that datacarriersize was not only still in the codebase, but the planned deprecation for that setting was removed before they ever shipped v30. I decided to run 30.2. Synced in less than 12hrs on very modest hardware