Because the devs said so 👍

Because, like the devs, you want to kill Bitcoin.

Oooh. I know! Because most people don't know how to do any of this shit and the devs who do know how are too deep inside their own heads to figure out how to bridge to and communicate with relative normies. Frankly I barely figured out how to set up a node a couple years ago and I'm not even sure I...

No one has said it. Core usage has plummeted and the community is abandoning them.

Best solution is to stick to Core v27 or v28 and & turn datacarrier size to zero.

Great question. Maybe because you dont want to download the whole chain again? I dunno .. I went from no node to Knots. Finer question ... why go from 29 to 30? Whats the incentive?

Yes, correct. This is the trillion dollar question that the cOrE team cannot answer, because they know their arguments are completely nonsensical and deceptive.

Isn't their claim UTXO bloat? The change will help that and the trade off is opening something, OP_RETURN, that stops nothing anyway. This is the basics of how I understand the argument. Like many I am just trying to understand.

Learn. Run whatever you want. https://image.nostr.build/3c42e5b0363f0df8fcd57ee4fb28b91c6143c2c1c492f6d7c66c1d3d8f74db49.jpg