Agree to disagree. I think its disingenuous to remove context of data storage. Backdoor work-a-rounds can be morally and (potentially) legally justified if those work-a-rounds are being addressed or attempting to be thwarted. When data storage just becomes another use case its much harder to make moral and/or legal justifications.

Which- if knots camp is correct (time will tell) puts a unnecessary burden on pleb full node runners over time.

Without pleb noderunners I wouldn't be so optimistic on bitcoin on a long time horizon. Trust very well might slowly erode if node count goes down over time. Turning bitcoin into just another shitcoin.

We shall see.