at current coding. core and cash accepts anything below consensus.h limit.. and then core freely allows the mining pool to make the blocks bigger than policy which will still be acceptable to core as long as the new blocksize stays under consensus (meaning to non-mining nodes) policy is meaningless to core users as its something pools decide solely by themselves
Maybe I misunderstood but how would it be "meaningless" if it is enforced to stay under a limit even if pools can decide but only if up to that limit?
meaningless to non-mining nodes
EG imagine a law that says its illegal accept 2000 banana and another law that says its illegal to GROW more than 1000 bananas.
growers(miners) follow the do not grow more then 1000 law AND if anyone passed them 2000 banana batch. they would rject that too..
howevr CUSTOMERS(non-miners/nongrowers) do not grow banana's so they dont need to worry about the 1000 banana growth rule. they only follow the 2000 acceptance rule
Then what is truly meaningful is the 2000 banana limit rule. The growers can grow 1 to 1000 but can increase it to only 2000 as enforced by the non-growers.
We have been going back to that debate many times, Segwit activated, game over. Plus this would be my reply to that,