A recent comment on the LTB article (good one by the way except that it is abit too emotional in its 2nd part in my view):

"Firstly... Just ignore Luke-JR, everyone should do this and we will all be better for it.

Secondly... Mike Hearn seemed to have a good compromise solution where OP_Return was used to store a pointer to the data that is stored elsewhere...

So you get the benefits of being on the blockchain, and lessen the load on the network. Win win?

Dear DEVS: is this being discussed? is there an internal dialogue/discussion beyond the REDDIT and the articles?