I get serious central planning vibes from this, and the core dev supporters in general. They think they know what node runners want and what motivates them better then they (node runners) do themselves.

You all should brush up on Austrian Economics, especially Human Action. People have all kinds of motivations that can't all be accounted for by central planners. The incentive for miners is obvious, reward and fees, but not so for node runners. Also Economics In One Lesson since this is a classic seen vs unseen problem. Core sees the use of OoB payments and can point that out, but what is unseen is all the nonsense the existing (and reasonable imo) limit prevents.

There is also a problem with his use of the term "censorship". There are two distinct usages of the term here. One is censoring economic activity, like blocking a tx for political reasons. Every bitcoiner is against this. There is also the "censoring" of arbitrary, non-monetary data. This is what is in question. Wuille and other supporters conflate the two, lumping them together, which makes for an easy straw man target, but is not accurate because filtering spam does not in any way impede the monetary use case of Bitcoin i.e. p2p electronic cash.