"in service of turning nodes into free relay services for miners wanting to fill the chain up with trash."

This is the part I disagree with. He's attributing a motive to core devs that they don't have. This is NOT the motivation for the change.

Moving the goal posts now too. "Change the default but don't remove the option" everyone said. That's what they did and ow there's still drama. That's why they should've just merged Todds PR. Now, we'll be having the same discussion and drama next year when we learn changing the default filter to uncapped had no effect on anything so another proposal comes along to remove it again.