I thought the ordinals and non monetary transactions were making node syncing of the latter years take waaaaaaay longer to sync.

That it what happened to me on my last sync of the full timechain, and i had attributed it to that 🙃😅

Is that not so?

Thanks

So?

Allowing for additional data that would not be there without a change increases the cost of running a node and is a headwind to decentralization.