It shows it doesn't matter, thus you might as well get rid of it to reduce the incentive to bypass the public mempool via centralized APIs to private mempools.
Indeed
The long term goal for bitcoin is for the chain to be full of contiguous data spam 🙂
We want cheap blockspace to help with L2 security and scaling. Therefore spam is inevitable
And contiguous data spam is the least harmful to our nodes
And, as you say, in order to defend mining decentralization we must ensure the public relay network can help the small miners to predict the next block and see which transactions are likely to get mined. To help with that, I've started a LibreRelay node today
The long term goal for bitcoin is for the chain to be full of contiguous data spam 🙂
We want cheap blockspace to help with L2 security and scaling. Therefore spam is inevitable
And contiguous data spam is the least harmful to our nodes
And, as you say, in order to defend mining decentralization we must ensure the public relay network can help the small miners to predict the next block and see which transactions are likely to get mined. To help with that, I've started a LibreRelay node today