True. But the consensus rules are relaxed for a reason, especially post-satoshi as we've learned that you can only make validation more strict, but not less strict, when you want to honor forward compatibility - which has been the modus operandi since basically forever.

You cannot put that genie back in the bottle without becoming a hardforking shitcoin.

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I agree with you. But I've felt the whole op-return conversation lacked people proposing actual rule changes rather than just policy changes. 