Bitcoin needs a large number of nodes to be decentralized. It is therefore vital to contain the growth of the blockchain and the UTXO set as much as possible. A blockchain cannot be a parking lot for arbitrary data. Unfortunately, Bitcoin Core's maintainers refused to send a strong message by updating the filters. Maintainers Andrew Chow, Gloria Zhao and Marco Falke have been criticized since noderunner Unhosted Marcellus discovered a stealth modification to Bitcoin Core's documentation. Marcellus realized that maintainer Marco Falke rewrote the documentation about -Datacarriersize just after the Inscription craze began to redefine its definition from:
« Maximum size of data in data carrier transactions we relay and mine. »
to
« Relay and mine transactions whose data-carrying raw scriptPubKey is of this size or less (80 bytes). »
AJ Towns and Gibbs ACKed the redefinition.