My god, here is even worse than Twitter regarding the uneducated op_return takes?

There has been so much content put together, how can people still not understand anything about how Bitcoin works? Understand where the "spam" and other data is currently put in Bitcoin first. Hint: not in op_return.

Then understand why there is mining centralization and services like Slipstream and others.

Then understand the different level of harm different ways of writing stuff to Bitcoin does, and how to possibly mitigate each of them.

Then decide if these mitigations are worth it, in their current form.

I believe pretty much everyone wants to get rid of non-transactional data, or at least jpeg spam. The problem isn't what we want, is what we can do today, and what impacts it has. Once you can argument how we can prevent jpegs to enter Bitcoin, in a way that does not involve a strong censorship committee that can also block legit transactions, it will get added to Bitcoin. Until then, it's all virtue signaling.

And NO, removing OP_return won't do anything to jpegs. But you know that already.