If those same transactions that were already taking place end up in OPReturn instead of the direct to miner setup - that would be a win.

If it encourages more transactions of the sort, at least the witness discount isn't provided & OPReturn is pruneable.

You could argue it's a net negative, but then you'd also have to take the stance that Lightning network & congruent multisig addresses weren't worth a little more spam here & there.

-> I think the main gist of this debacle is that core devs haven't had to stand up to user scrutiny in a while.

-> this woke everyone up & people started paying attention to knots - which has been around for a while now - no one cared.

-> this is good for Bitcoin education & decentralization.