With all due respect, I don't think you've answered the question. Your make valid points for the justification of the increase in the limit and explain that individual nodes may be harming themselves, default settings are the norm and the transactions will be propagated anyway. You've even pointed out that the ability to configure this setting was debated anyway and some consider that it shouldn't have been added. But the question asks something different, something I am wondering also. As a sovereign node runner in an open permissionless network, why does this PR propose to remove the ability for me to configure the mempool settings on my own node? If I make a decision that harms myself and doesn't make any difference to the propagation of transactions, isn't that for me to decide and bear the consequences of? It's like re-using addresses, commonly accepted as poor for privacy but there is no rule in the protocol that permits it. It's up to me to understand and accept the consequences.