How is that not user choice?

Bitcoin core is making decisions that node runners do not agree with and forcing their decisions by removing the settings

That is Fed behavior that’s handcuffing the node runner to Bitcoin core’s ideology.

Talk about dodging questions.

There is only one question

Why did they remove the user settings?

For the record the only reason I switched to knots is because Core was going to and has since I switched, removed user settings.

I don’t give a fuck who wrote what the code base is 99% the same except with Knots I have more choice.

Bitcoin core is literally going down the same path ethereum went down.

When I first switch to Knots someone I know from Nostr who had run an ethereum validator in the past told me the same stuff you and JB have been saying. I asked him why he stopped running his validator and he said the storage got to big. I said thank you and thought the discussion was over. He still didn’t understand so explained to him like a 5 year old.

If the blockchain gets to big to fast no one will run it expect for Feds, Institutions, and spammers and Bitcoin will fully evolve into Bit Suit.

That’s what core is championing for a bloated blockchain covered with spam.

Core is aligned with Ethereum people like J Slopp.

In fact ethereum puts the “e” in Core.