The “pressure” as you call it, was there long before they decided to merge the op_return uncap. From developers on GitHub. And from the Bitcoin community as a whole.
A small contingent of core devs decided to arrogantly push it through anyways.
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They pushed it through to maintain Bitcoin’s decentralization. Fantastic stewards and well done to them.
indeed
core should eat this humble pie
