you could just change your core config this whole time but i guess the virtue signal needed a stage ... #noderunner 
Discussion
Sure now someone can keep core and just not upgrade to 29.0, but what about in the future when you will have to update to core latest version because there is an important bug fix? (And the new version will not allow for configuration of op_return)
It’s not virtue signaling, it’s about making a stance and expressing your vote. If you have a different opinion that’s cool, but this has nothing to do with virtue signaling
Regardless of one's stance on the issue, I don't think it's a good idea to trust my node, vote and money to a hypercentralized software project like Knots. There's 1 person who makes every single decision and just a single pair of eyeballs looking at code before pushing commits directly to main. There's currently a diff of >4000 commits between Core and Knots, that's a big question mark on software security. I don't think anyone who's really serious about software security will run Knots in production tbh
I’m not pleased either about the fact that knots is a one-man-team, but:
1) hopefully more devs will start contribute to knots
2) core is already a hypercentralization problem, and from their latest interview I think they know it and play on it (you don’t like what we are doing? Go run another software (which there really isn’t another real choice atm)
I think we need more software alternatives to core monopoly and this is a good situation to start acting on it
I'll stick to core v28 until I better understand the repercussions of v29 and changing the OP_RETURN limit myself, but it's certainly not as straightforward as many people want to make it seem
So far Knots, to me at least, appears to be the worst choice. And most people promoting Knots have no clue about software security
I agree with you man, I also was thinking of staying with 28v, but:
1) I see this as simply postponing the problem (going back to what I said about future version with important bug fixes)
2) I wanted to switch to knots mostly to send a signal to core (have you seeing the live debate knots/core? Core has made statements like “btc is not monetary system, is a database” “the priority is the miners not nodes”. Cannot ignore this behaviour of theirs
Bitcoin is indeed technically just a database (multiple actually: it uses LevelDB and SQLite), but that database is also at the heart of an emerging global monetary system.
Todd refused to acknowledge that 2nd part (which is crucial context) and Mechanic almost exclusively spewed empty rhetoric and dogma. It was very disappointing tbh
But I guess this is what "rough consensus" looks like 😅