I'm in favour of Bitcoin ossification.
That is, no more "improvements".
No further changes to the Bitcoin protocol or the incentives that drive it.
Bitcoin core software still requires maintenance. This is a boring & thankless task & I'm grateful to the Devs that take it on. I think this is where the support for Bitcoin Core is aimed at.
Small changes to the incentives can have a massive impact to how Bitcoin operates. Nobody can predict what downstream effects will arise from removing or increasing the OP_RETURN filter from the bulk of validating nodes. The downplaying & trivialising of these effects is concerning.
I will not be upgrading my node software unless there's a compelling reason to do so.
I'm never running knots.