Knots is deploying policy rules to filter transactions that are widely used and broadcast. That is a radical take off from existing practice. Filters do something if miners use them, if not, we have two good examples now that they are virtually useless at prohibiting transactions from reaching miners, or communicating to miners that they should not include them in blockd.
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Please prove your point with quantitative data. Otherwise it's pointless to discuss this. If filters are useless, we can just leave them in place, no reason to alienate the community about it.
Both full rbf and sub sat fee txs made it through what could well be called fully deployed filters. The op_return filter specifically created a perverse incentive that led to counterparty, omni, and stamps embedding data in outputs, which is strictly worse than if they could have used op_return instead. The rule should have been relaxed a decade ago in my opinion.
