There has been no change in the consensus rules; anything that got mined into a block today could have been mined into a block any time in the last several years.

Is that what Jameson Lopp and Peter Todd were trying to say at the Plan B conference? I just remember Jameson Lopp yelled out to the audience, "SO WHAT IF I AM A BAD ACTOR, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!" Maybe they presumed Satoshi was in the crowd or watching from somewhere. So if I'm understanding this right, any random person could have removed the Op_Return limit at any time since all the code is open source and they could release their own implementation of Bitcoin and just paid MARA or whoever to get it mined. Which is why Peter Todd released Bitcoin Libre to show everyone that the data limits could be easily removed by whomever, whenever. But nobody adopted Bitcoin Libre. So now Core devs took it upon themselves to remove the Op_Return limit from Core v30 in an attempt to bate Satoshi into coming out of retirement to fix the consensus rules to stop this from being a potential issue for Bitcoin in the future since none of the devs could figure out how to patch that vulnerability. Which explains why BIP-444 came from an anonymous person. Did I get that right?