It's not beautiful nor wonderful.

Up until early 2023 the UTXO set was less than 5 GB, and that took 14 years.

Now it's pushing 12 GB, and these 7 GB of growth in the last 20 months are mostly unspendable dust outputs from inscription spam.

Basically running a node got noticeably more costly for no good reason (mind you, the UTXO set is unprunable and nodes try to keep it in RAM as much as possible).