Would the change prevent operators from adding the carriersize to their config?
I was also not persuaded by the arguments in favor of the change and agree that nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx had the best position on the issue: let the node operators decide how they run their node.
The OP_RETURN change doesn’t matter to me in and of itself. Removing configurability for node operators and the arguments put forward to justify that removal seem more problematic to me.
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From what I understand—and I may have misunderstood this—that’s the planned change.