I was also not persuaded by the arguments in favor of the change and agree that nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqnz0fd0 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.