Why do they need to remove the knob though?
This is all retarded and I don’t trust anyone. One side has a bunch of shitcoiners and the other is a bunch of religious nuts…
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because it doesn't do anything useful. mempool settings are incredibly niche for non-mining nodes, unless you are optimizing memory, but then you would just use the total mempool size setting.
I've been running a node since 2010 and I never once needed to tweak this, only ever mempool memory usage.
non-useful code is dead code and is a maintenance burden. non-useful code is also confusing to users who think tweaking the knob will actually do something.
Sorry but I don’t buy that excuse…
How much additional maintenance does allowing users flexibility to update settings on their node really require?
Just seems very suspect that this is the hill core devs are deciding to die on.