Yet another contradiction...
If you argue it's important that people don't use many different node implementations, even quoting Satoshi's opinion on it, then you should agree Core should more carefully consider what users want, and not "forcefully" change default settings, pushing people away to other implementations - that fact that the mempool policy changes are not related to block consensus rules is no defence; it's clearly been a factor in pushing people away.
Also, it's not about the strict definition of "force", and debating this is a distraction. The fact is, uniformity in one domain was sacrificed for another, CAUSED by tinkering with Bitcoin code.
"Forced", "Caused", like, whatever, that kind of language has no place, I mean, shouldn't be considered.
Spelling it out...
1) "We need mempools to be uniform, so spammers don't go directly to miners, or this will cause miner centralisation" (Adam Back, in particular is championing this nonsense).
That uniformity desire CONTRADICTS the one about node runners...
2) Core can do whatever they want, if you don't like it, run a different implementation.
Which contradicts...
A) I'm educating you why you shouldn't run knots, and why Core making unilateral changes is a good thing.
B) If you run Knots you're a Knotzi Filerooor retard.
QED
