We are also arguing on stackernews. thanks for the discussion and consistency. I say it's a political issue at this point. bitcoin-core must stop appearing to support the forthcoming "built on bitcoin" shitcoins. see NVK's comments to Livera The PR should be rewritten after public discussion at the big conference coming up.

I have a feeling it will be. I'm usually not a mempool developer outside of getting its logic isolated from the rest of the consensus code, but I do care about data embedding too. I wrote my diploma thesis on the very topic.