Peception is you're playing ball with a company that doesn't give a damn about using Bitcoin as money.

Sjors recently said in the mailing list that they probably won't.

So is the public/userbase that sees bitcoin as money supposed to then believe this pr is justified by the off-chance that "occasionally" it will divert unnecessary UTXOs?

Will it create the incentive for those non-monetary use-cases that are already spamming the network to play nice because you "would prefer" it that way?

In fact both scenarios seem unlikely to me.

And even less likely, is that this is a also a thorn in the side of mining centralization.

On the contrary, this change opening the door to new-non-monetary ways to spam the network seems much more likely to happen.

I get that Core devs are doing often thankless work, and I certainly don't take that for granted. Nor do I want to drag your name in the mud, Todd. But in spite of the countless hours I've spent trying to understand what's going on, there are still things that don't add up. I wouldn't suppose to know the details as intimately as you, but please try to afford me and the other concerned users sympathy, as I have afforded you.