Did you miss the “since” part? > since block height 930,600 (Core v30 release) How is that “manipulative”? It seems very clear to me. Why did spammers go to all of the trouble of creating inscriptions, which store data in non-prunable UXTO records, instead of OP_RETURN, which can be pruned off?

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Because that is meaningless comparisson. If you compare number of OP_RETURNs larger than 83 Bytes before Core V30 and now you will see huge increase in the numbers now.