ordinals has been on mainnet for four days. 

Not much of the blockchain is taken up by people publishing data. It's a non-issue.

petertodd

right… seems important to me that non-financial tx are given substantially more discount than simple financial tx on a network meant to accommodate financial tx and with limited blockspace.

pourteaux

bitcoin

Illegitimate bitcoin transactions

nout

So? The discount accurately reflects the lesser cost to the network of non-utxo-set data. And P2SH is no different. You can publish as much data as you want with P2SH too. Just use more inputs. Doesn't make it much more expensive.