This issue seems to me much more about certain fundamental elements of system dynamics (esp, mining) than it is about minor filtering methods which are necessarily (to my way of thinking) under-powered and easily worked around.

As I understand things, this change would more formally open the door for single-block transactionstransaction blocks.  (Zero-transaction blocks being a thing at times in Bitcoin's history, as, of course, non-filled blocks.)  Am I right about this OP_RETURN change insofar as there would be no coded limits on transaction size and it would only be limited by block size?

Mining pools have always been assumed (for design reasons at least) to be fairly mercenary, and it sounds as though at this point practice is becoming common.  That is to say, out-of-band pay-offs to large miners are becoming more popular?

For various of the on-chain transactions I perform, I would prefer they be processed by non-commercial mining operations (especially in light of the above.)  Assuming some sort of a trustworthy coordination platform, would it be practical to pay minimal or no fee, but instead pay a relatively large sum to an address which would be distributed to the kind of miners which I referprefer (e.g., people running bitaxe like devices in their homes and coordinating with processor)?  Are such efforts underway or functional?

This issue seems to me much more about certain fundamental elements of system dynamics (esp, mining) than it is about minor filtering methods which are necessarily (to my way of thinking) under-powered and easily worked around.

As I understand things, this change would more formally open the door for single-block transactions.  (Zero-transaction blocks being a thing at times in Bitcoin's history, as, of course, non-filled blocks.)  Am I right about this OP_RETURN change insofar as there would be no coded limits on transaction size and it would only be limited by block size?

Mining pools have always been assumed (for design reasons at least) to be fairly mercenary, and it sounds as though at this point practice is becoming common.  That is to say, out-of-band pay-offs to large miners are becoming more popular?

For various of the on-chain transactions I perform, I would prefer they be processed by non-commercial mining operations (especially in light of the above.)  Assuming some sort of a trustworthy coordination platform, would it be practical to pay minimal or no fee, but instead pay a relatively large sum to an address which would be distributed to the kind of miners which I refer (e.g., people running bitaxe like devices in their homes and coordinating with processor)?  Are such efforts underway or functional?