Autonomy and Sovereignty. This is like asking what is the point of locking your door? A burglar will just break a window to get in. The point is it's my house and I can choose who I LET in, but if someone breaks in I can't really stop that. Spam in the block is a break in. Spam in my mempool is who I LET in.
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Consensus rules let them in regardless. Relay policy is like having a feather as a deadbolt
Why do we have to make this change to core ?/why not leave it alone ?
Because it creates bad incentives, if relaying OP_RETURN transactions is hard, people who want to inscript will bloat your UTXO set. You will be able to do nothing about it, whereas now you ignore everything after OP_RETURN even if it's part of the block.
I guess people like the feather. We should keep our feather for now. Why remove it?
