Am i missing something? why is everyone making such a big deal of this dip?

You dump US coin/treasury you pay tariffs.

"You are too dumb to understand the tech pleb, this is to help fee estimation, compact block and utxo set." - No it's not, it's Citrea wanting their business and Core not having balls to tell them to fuck off.

TheRage is badicly that Lola chick and she hates Luke and Ocean and she is pro spam. What's the surprise?

Core had the upper hand. They could tell Citrea that either they can work with a reasonable amount of op_return or they can get rekt. Instead Core said please don't harm us, we will open a nice door for you and anyone else.

Ok, so filters are bad for Citrea business but they would do more harm by bloating the utxo set, yes, unless you add filters for them like Luke said. Ok, but then it would be a useless cat and mouse game, cat and mouse games is something a decentralized censorship resistant business like citrea cannot afford to play. Bitcoin can.

If filters don't work, why doesn't Citrea still used op_return anyway ? Because they work, in the sense that for Citrea even if possible it's a big risk for their business, that s why they went for the option of putting it in the utxo set, because of filters and they need bitcoin network censorship resistance.