At the very least I wish that Satoshi would at least express his view on what he thinks about putting extra data into transactions beyond pure financial data into transactions, and I think this is only going to start an arms race for those who want to play with scripts and those who are trying to keep scripts “pure”. All that has happened here is to simply lay the gauntlet down to get past the “IsStandard()” check and find transactions which can pass that test but still contain other data.
Yeah; it’s pretty pointless. Why on Earth would any miner adopt this change, when it means that they will be getting fewer transaction fees due to the lost non-standard transactions?