The “compromise” for the “less damaging” OP_RETURN was a mistake. And a lie. “Less damaging” only applies to the opinionated prune-first architecture of Blockstream Core. “wE mUsT PrOtEct tHE uTxOseT” actually openly admits a vulnerability. A weak spot. Blockstream’s ‘chainstate’ (initially called “ultraprune”) has misguided consensus changes, and most recently, blew up the social contract protective layer of Bitcoin. A no-prune node architecture, realized decentralization, makes Blockstream’s UTXO Set irrelevant. Full Nodes are the TRUE bytes that must be permanently protected, to keep lean and clean.