Aren't you also concerned that Core V30 shipped with a bug deleting Bitcoiners wallets with all their Bitcoin? Also, about Knots, it has a number of different contributers and peer reviewers. So your worries are kind of strange ...

Humility is a virtue. But there’s a logical fallacy hiding in your humility — it’s called Appeal to Ignorance: “I don’t know the outcome, therefore I won’t act.” Not acting IS a choice. And currently, that choice means endorsing the status quo — a chain filling with junk data while node operators foot the bill. Read the actual proposal before deciding the risk isn’t worth it.

BIP-110

BIP-110: Temporarily Limit Arbitrary Data in Bitcoin

A one-year consensus soft fork to limit arbitrary data storage in Bitcoin, protecting its purpose as sound, permissionless money.