If you needed any more evidence that this group are scumbags...this is it.
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How is this a negative at all
Because it's a v30 feature. Backporting it onto minor update of v28 circumvents Core node runner's ability to choose, by "sneaking it" into what appears to be a maintenance update.
It looks like think they need this out in the wild, and are willing to sacrifice any semblance of convention to make it happen.
... Yeah, but its not a controversial upgrade at all and those transactions are valid. Means those who want to run older nodes can keep up to date on security patches AND remove arbitrary restriction on the fee that are alrewdy on the network.