> If it (the relay filter) is bypassed, it (the relay filter) works by definition

If by "work", you mean "kill the small miners so that a small cabal of large miners have control of Bitcoin", then I agree that it "works"

You might think I'm being unnecessarily sarcastic here, but for many of us the priority is to keep mining decentralised. Miner decentralisation requires:

- keeping the UTXO set small

- accurate prediction of what the next block will be, to enable small miners to stay at the tip and to enable their blocks to be quickly accepted by everyone else

There are lots of issues to consider, and trade offs, but miner decentralisation is critical and must be part of every debater's calculus.