Exactly, and that’s the entire narrative of the spam apologists: we can’t score a definitive win against spam, so we should abandon the fight entirely. To me, these people expose themselves as either intentionally dishonest or bad actors.

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Even if it worked as you say it has significant negative consequences if people bypass it creating UNPRUNABLE data.

Spam is unprunable data by definition. It goes directly to the UTXO set that has been so bloated in the past two years alone it has basically bricked the low end node hardware devices.

OP_RETURN doesn't need to be in UTXO set but the fake outputs trying to bypass the 80B limit do.