Well then my original rely that your statement is illogical applies!

Avoiding the potential situation where governments are more able to target nodes for csam, requires only that we continue as-is. Maintain the status quo.

It is Core that is proposing the change that *might* make csam problem worse.

Knots is not “changing Bitcoin” to avoid government liabilities- as you suggest erroneously!

Core is changing Bitcoin default policy and it might increase government liabilities, and I actually don’t think it’s debatable, it absolutely will increase liability due to the plain text format in op_return per-confirmation.