Lets take an analogy:

We have a nice little town. One of the "town laws" we had was no strip clubs. The actual manner the specific law banning them was pretty basic and easily circumvented.

The town lawyers said, its pointless playing a cat-and-mouse game of crafting new language since that will simply be bypassed also in time. So, they took a different approach, lets just rigorously enforce our "business license fee" scheme and these businesses will either succeed and pay taxes or die away.

Now its true that the towns lawyers are not "pro strip clubs", but they are "pro economically viable strip clubs"

This is not a great analogy, but I think it gets at the heart of it. The Core developers are not "pro-data storage" but well they are "pro-economically viable data storage".