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Its bloat that wouldn't have otherwise been there. Its not so much (right now) in the grand scheme of things, which is possibly one of the reasons why Core devs have been reluctant to rush out any changes, but the smaller the blockchain stays, the better. The less resources that are required to run a node, the better.
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You can see growth of the blockchain was relatively linear up until early February of this year, which is when the Ordinals fad really started to kick in, then it sped up since then:
https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_blockchain_size
Zooming out, blockchain size growth takes on more of an exponential quality but this probably isn't a good reason to hasten it.
that graph looks very linear to me even since february. yes the slope changed but only very small increase in slope of the line segment. so it doesn't appear to me that the blockchain is growing any faster than it was before ordinals came out. maybe a just a tiny bit more and i don't know why that would be but it doesn't seem out of control or anything. how could it be? bitcoin only allows X amount of data to be stored every 10 minutes or so...that hasn't changed ever i don't think.https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_blockchain_size
Zooming out, blockchain size growth takes on more of an exponential quality but this probably isn't a good reason to hasten it.