"Speaking for myself, I hope you believe me when I say that is not the motivation at all. I think these use cases are temporary hype cycles, and not rational use of blockchain space, but the market can stay irrational for a long time. However, I believe that attempts to discourage these use cases through node relay policy, in the presence of widespread evidence that miners accept these transactions anyway, are ineffective, akin to making nodes bury their heads in the sand, and ultimately harmful to the decentralization of the system at large." How is it harmful to decentralization if we set our own mempool relay policy? How does changing the default settings to relay bigger op_returns NOT increase the potential for images to be relayed? Don't see anything new in this answer.