Citrea was indeed what started the discussion in the developer mailing list. Just because their "workaround" around the OP_RETURN limit is currently spamming the UTXO set with "fake public keys" in their transactions (although on a very small scale compared to Ordinals Stampchain). The idea was to nudge them to use OP_RETURN instead (removing the limits), which would be less resource-hungry for full nodes.

That's the whole "Citrea issue". Building a "Core corruption story" around that is quite lame, I think.

And thus I'm very disappointed from those developers who are now fueling this anti-Core shitstorm. Because they should know better.