Apparently, it’s not clear enough.

So it has nothing to do with venture capital funded projects wanting their transactions to be more freely relayed?

What and where is the source of this screenshot?

1. Outdated? Limits still protect most nodes. Removing them normalizes bloat. 2. Hurts decentralization? Heavy defaults increase node costs and reduce participation. 3. Free market? Markets don’t fix externalities spam at any fee still burdens every node. 4. Backfires? Fix stuffing exploits; don...

If these points is the best you can do to justify core... then the way forward is obvious. Running knots

As others mentioned. The real culprit was the introduction of SegWit.

okay run knots