Defaults are changed and it’s marked depreciated. Who is lying now?

If it’s there and the default isn’t changed, or there is a prompt to set the limit when setting up the node or upgrading to v30+, I don’t see why anyone would take any action to make core devs uncomfortable.

"Although Core developers will technically allow v30 node operators users to lower the data storage number via the setting “datacarriersize=”, they’ve not only changed the meaning of datacarriersize but also told users that this rejiggered configurability option will be deprecated soon anyway."

Seems there are some "forces" pushing for division with Bitcoin advocates.. Even if that force is mostly the broken incentives that make advertising revenue model SM tend towards dumpster fires..