Very funny to see your reply now because I was scrolling your feed after your last note to see if you took a public stance.
While I'm not super technical I can see the incentives and I agree with what you said here. I might add that miners could potentially benefit by increasing demand for block space using non-financial (shitcoin) activity. All seems hypocritical and dangerous in my opinion. Even the accidental loophole created by Taproot caused a big mess for a short period of time. This seems like it would open the floodgates.
I'm still having a hard time understanding why anyone wants to increase OP Return or support Core's desire to do so, but I'm remaining open to hearing an explanation that doesn't sound like nonsense.