Your cucumber example means nothing because with data, it could be encrypted. For example it could be an encrypted message saying "march rent".
And theres no reason an encrypted message saying anything should take up more than a hundred bytes that need to be stored and verified by every node forever. Your response didnt even make sense for what you were responding to lmao. Have you synced a node recently? These nebulous NoN mOnEtArY transactions have a very real effect