No its literally just history repeating itself.
The blockchain has already been forked in the past for the exact same reason.
And guess fucking what?
The blockchain without the spam malware and childporn is the blockchain that retained the title of Bitcoin.
You fill a blockchain up with garbage and nobody wants to run it, simple.
Node runners are the ones who decide.
The fact that so few have updated to core 30 shows you that they're collectively against this update and allowing spam on chain