You should hope not, considering knots is just a fork of core ... Lol

We never hwve to upgrade. That is also an option.

Amazing someone so irresponsible has got >20% of Noderunner support so quickly. What does that say about Core Devs?

You should understand that while you may not be relaying these transactions, running Knots does litterally nothing to stop them from being mined and they will ultimatly end up on your node anyway:

BitcoinLizard (npub1k6…ftryn) on Nostr

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This 2679 byte op_return containing a png file was confirmed on chain. I broadcast it using Core version 29.1 to the regular Bitcoin relay network ...

Yes, i understand this. Miners also need to understand the risks when going against node policies.