You do know software updates are created for reasons?

Yeah and most will fit into the new more restrictive rule set. It's coming soon. Have you heard of it? It's slick. Pretty simple. Just makes Bitcoin less bloated. We call it #bip110

Unless you're only goal with v29 is to make a limp wirsted symbolic protest that bears a faint resemblance to a principled stand you might as well upgrade to v30 and have the benefit of future bug patches.

It's that damn fence post. It's deep. Tough to remove at this point.