I would agree. However there is a growing contingent of influencers, many of them well-meaning, accusing Core of malfeasance even misconduct or corruption with regards to Bitcoin... because they are "taking bribes" from the Spammers by "enabling spam" and "opening the shitcoin floodgates" (you see this alot on social media/X).

Like in 2017, they are saying the solution is to "run knots" which... doesn't make any sense to me. Low fee-rate transactions are getting through even though the vast majority of nodes filter them by default... the spam is getting through regardless of mempool policy and the filterers are only harming their own fee estimation.

In addition, the vast majority of the "spam" isn't jpegs... it's arbitrary data disguised as "tokens" usually in Witness script or op_return outputs. Anyone at any time can come up with any arbitrary way of including this data, any arbitrary schemes to "tokenize" data presented... just random 1s and 0s, It's a nuanced argument IMO and the "run knots" people aren't interested in nuance which doesn't help things.

Do they explain the risks involved in "running knots" or the tradeoffs? No. It's to "save Bitcoin" from the "evil Bitcoin Core" which doesn't make any sense to me.

Furthermore there is a technical deafness with regards to what is actually getting into mempools, what fees are being paid, and what the spam actually "is" which I think is wrong. A great benefit to Bitcoin is its transparency... actually examining what's in transactions and mempools and gaming/figuring that out over the next 25 years.

This post tried to take a guess at that and ask: Do People want to use Bitcoin or not?