I agree, if you are not sure what do then you should stay on older version of core.

You are not looking at things far ahead in the future, ocean isn't relaying spam blocks they already make more money than other mempools (proportionally) and they are on uptrend as oppose to others. When a miner is looking for a block other nodes need to make sure this is a valid block, having more suspicious TX increase your latency and lower your chances as an other miner with less fishy TX can pick it up and win the block. This may sound a bit too theoretical BC ocean is still too small and fundry is still too big.

I agree that you're not going to prevent spams getting into blocks without being a large scale miner but I am not worried about that. I don't trust some core devs specially the ones who are pushing for the recent upgrades and I refuse to run their recent malicious code of attack on Bitcoin. And I reserve the right move away from core as far as I know.

You're missing the entire point. It's not about filtering spams only it's about the freedom move out and refusing to go back.

But also just a side note, a malicious miner will have a lower chance to find a spammy block if most people don't want to relay(or keep) spams in their mempool, so the honest miner wins in the end which may or may not incentivize bad actors to be honest.

This mentality of there is nothing you can do about it is complacent and unproductive.

Partial Ossification is probably the survival path for Bitcoin as most upgrades are more harmful than good long term.

The best way is to implement your own version of Bitcoin and run that yourself, but until most people is capable of doing this they can run the less corrupted version. Knots may also go woke in the future Idk but I refuse to run another idiot code on my server.

Excellent

You don't need to click on it if you don't want to

Higher, Or you can switch to a different node client like Knots 🪢

Bitcoin has something called "difficulty adjustment" it will drop to an equilibrium if big miners unplug if that happens home miners can easily secure the network.

The push to ease Op_return limit isn't organic. It's clear to everyone Bitcoin core devs are corrupt with a many conflict of interest.

No, there will always be an organic fee market to pay miners. No need to force jpeg scams onchain. In 20 years I am sure people will pay more than $300 000 per block of transactions as the value of Bitcoin grows.

I agree with you but not fixing the bug that's letting them sabotage Bitcoin is affecting Bitcoin really bad. Back when this first started I used to be like that but then I realised running a node back then used to take way less time to synchronise than today when it can take almost a month. These people know what they are doing they want want to break bitcoin and Bitcoin devs wanting to ease it to help them do more is same as participating in the vandalism.

Bitcoin core devs are not dictators of Bitcoin, nobody should tell you which software to run nor what to run on it.

Bitcoin has no leader