Developer Peter Todd, who initiated the proposal, argued that bypassing the previous limit aligns with existing transaction practices

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“The restrictions are easily bypassed by direct substitution and forks of Bitcoin Core,” Todd noted in his GitHub comments.

“It doesn’t make economic sense to use OP_Return for large amounts of data,” Peter Todd said in a reply, adding, “Witness space is cheaper. And we already consider transactions up to 100KvB/400KB to be standard.”