How is he the one wanting change, when its core that is attempting to make the change? That sounds more like core decided, "they know how to fix Bitcoin"

I don’t think you understand what virtue signaling means. He’s posing a legitimate problem on top of the already existing problem of turning nodes into jpg storage. The change allowing for the data increase doesn’t belong on the bitcoin blockchain, is antithetical to the decentralized mindset and poses future moral hazards. If you can’t talk to those issues and want to continually engage in ad hominem attacks, then myself nor anyone else really cares about your thoughts.