Almost - I thought that too. Then I looked at the Knots and Core transaction filter code on GitHub. Knots filters out runes, inscriptions, and some other spam that Core refuses to filter. I wasn’t pro-Knots before this drama inspired me to actually look at the code. Core could easily have accepted Luke’s PR to filter this non-monetary garbage but philosophically they don’t believe that Bitcoin should only be money - as you saw in that video with one of the Core maintainers talking about cat videos and wizard JPEGs being fine in the blockchain.