🤔 Consensus limits are enforced to prevent abuse. Game theory can’t price in long-term state bloat because it’s an externality. Taproot and witness discounts distorted incentives by subsidizing arbitrary data. Game theory doesn’t imply the network abandons nodes that correct misaligned incentives. Game theory assumes aligned incentives and internalized costs. Arbitrary data breaks this: benefits accrue to a few publishers while long-term costs are pushed onto all future node operators. That’s not an equilibrium — it’s an externality. Preventing consensus abuse isn’t censorship. Censorship resistance protects spending money, not subsidizing arbitrary data. Neutrality doesn’t mean “anything forever.”