Yes, they are.
Bitcoin Knots gives you the freedom to set your OP_RETURN however you want and that is true for all filters, for YOUR mempool settings and everything else.
Core has flagged the setting for OP_RETURN as DEPRECATED, meaning in future it will be gone thus taking away your freedom.
Core devs CENSORED Bitcoin contributers on Github for mentioning Citrea, the shitcoin company that corrupted them and aims to turn Bitcoin into Ethereum like shitcoin.
Core devs ATTACKED Bitcoin Knots node runners.
Core devs lied, gaslighted and gave arguments that correspond to insanity.
Speaking about Luke, some really intelligent people call him The Guarding Angel of Bitcoin.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1872641206804426794.html
Also many Bitcoin developers contribute to Bitcoin Knots
The settings is still configurable, and it is not a given that it will be eliminated given the current fiasco.
You didn't address the core premise in my reply: only one person has commit power in Knots and they guy is a known religius fanatic that defends state's right to government people.
It is not a trivial thing. It brink all of the Knots guys are being hoodwinked. If you're so keen on choice, just run earlier versions of Core, instead being knots only guy.
You are not in a position to tell me what to run.
Especially with this BS that you write.
I am running Bitcoin Knots and solo mining with DATUM from Ocean. Because this is the true decentralization for Bitcoin.
But hey, not everyone can have brain. You can "think" what you like.
