we'll you're hearing my side. I am a bitcoin core contributor. there aren't many of us. we are outnumbered millions to a couple dozen at most ? you will naturally mostly hear the crowd when we are this outnumbered. I think there is a valid counter argument: I have yet to see anyone point out why the setting matters when you can get around it via witness data (like how inscriptions abused the network) unrestricted OP_RETURN is strictly better since those are provably unspendable, meaning you don't need to permanently bloat the utxo set. if people are going to do it anyway and you can't stop it without a hardfork, then removing the restriction so people don't do dumber things that hurt the network even more is better is it not?

Yeah, as stayed after core sat on their hands in 2023 when all this started. The proposal that was 'contentious' was to address the spam with a spam filter. Their like lala I'm not listening. And then: Since we can't filter 100% of spam, our only action is to just lower the drawbridge and let it all in. It's fine because now they aren't trying to climb the castle walls anymore. And I expected the response to that be more: lala we can't stop all spam. Can you even refute Bitcoin Mechanics central point? Like, rewind back to 2023 when the problem started.