I'd love to be shown in the source and config where it does either of these things.

Luke's off the rails with BIP 444, and I won't be running anything v30+.

But the Knots v27 I've been running for over a year does a nice job of what it says it does: refusing to relay ordinals, inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, and OP_RETURNs over 40 bytes.

And, like any other Bitcoin implementation, letting you transact monetarily with whoever the fuck you want.

What Luke wants to do isn't particularly of importance. Not sure when bitcoiners decided personalities mattered more than code.