So the timing of this is just a super bizarre coincidence? I'm really confused now.
Seems like Knots reduced the limit from 83 to 42 ages ago, but it never made any difference to anything since no miners were using Knots and any transactions the few Knots nodes ignored simply routed around those nodes between Core nodes.
If clients are disregarding certain transactions when devs aren't even trying to crackdown on ordinals, imagine the potential for mistakes when they are trying and start making deliberate changes.
Who says this isn't deliberate? Dashjr holds a lot of outright crazy views and has previously used his mining pool (Eligius) to censor transactions he personally doesn't agree with. He's called all forms of mixing money laundering in the past, so I'm sure he has no problems at all censoring coinjoin transactions. Just another step towards governmental control of bitcoin.