Bitcoin Core stated in its June 6, 2025 joint statement that permitting large-data transactions aligns with Bitcoin’s censorship-resistant architecture and poses no technical harm to the network

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This is because Bitcoin was built on the ethos of censorship resistance, they explained, adding that large data transactions are “largely harmless at a technical level.”
Given that, we believe it is better for Bitcoin node software to aim to have a realistic idea of what will end up in the next block, rather than attempting to intervene between consenting transaction creators and miners in order to discourage activity that is largely harmless at a technical level.

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