Sounds like you misunderstood my argument, which is not that *standard* transactions create additional centralization pressure on nodes, but that *spam* transactions do I think it matters that some blocks are full of dickbutts. It matters in a similar manner to this: imagine you ran a popular forum for discussing Justin Bieber. But one day you visit your forum and see a bunch of posts containing jpeg dickbutts, and learn that instead of discussing Justin Bieber, a bunch of spammers decided to use your server as a file storage for their NFTs. It would be strange to say, "Well that's no concern of mine, if people want to use my server for dickbutts, great!" If people use your server for something contrary to what you intend it for, it's a technical problem. I think there are a lot of bitcoiners who want their blockchain to store *standard* transactions, not dickbutts, and they want their mempool to *relay* standard transactions, not dickbutts. Filters effectively help. Specifically, they stop your mempool from relaying the most common formats used to share dickbutts on nodes, and when widely used, they also disincentivize at least small miners from mining dickbutts. That is a technical solution to a technical problem. Which is why I think filters are good and important.