I've spent less than 15 minutes looking at this debate, but can already see it's basically the same kind of debate as rbf, so it's not worth investing much time into it. Looks like bike shedding to me.
It brings mempool filtering in line with consensus rules, which is needed for mempool to remain relevant long term (otherwise other transaction markets will replace it).
This has no consequence over whether or not bitcoin is used as money or as some kind of permanent storage - the market determines how to price those use cases.
If we want bitcoin to be used as money, we need to start producing seriously valuable goods and services that the market will kill for. Since we are bitcoiners and we only accept bitcoin, the broader market that wants what we produce must adopt it. To put it another way, a bitcoin standard just means that society is dependent on bitcoiners to produce everything.