I am new to the forum and this thread is 6 months old, but that's *still* a month younger than my own brief experiment making a single inscription using the Ord code -- A small (<1KB) text poem to my Mom for Mother's day to put her on the Chain (see https://ordinals.com/preview/51b2b0ca885149b342a2c80420f57f4fb86e3abd6ad4f17b618fb33b8b0e436bi0 for context).  

SO I'm still trying to sort through whether I played myself (and my dear old mum, and the world?) into the hands of some obscure and nefarious "attack" conspiracy? Directed by shadowy bad actors who are suing luminaries here on this board? for billions of dollars or something... sounds hideous!  

Meanwhile my specific questions for this thread are:  
Is it true that there used to be a 10000 byte limit on scripts which Taproot actually removed?  
If so, why was 10KB of space before Taproot, not enough for Witness scripts and  that an unlimited amount of space was required?
Lastly, if this thread was answered, can someone summarize the answer to the thread question "What's the reason(s) for not being strict about Taproot witness program size?"
I always thought standards were good, and that without limits (or proportions) the only options are "All" or "Nothing."

My instincts are for compromise, proportion and ratio as the basis of Harmony.  Why cannot an appropriate amount of space for Marginalia (and Witness Scripts) be set that does not crowd out the space needed for actual ledger entries.  

Maybe my instincts are wrong -- If Answers have already been given and I lost them in the read-through, perhaps they can be re-summarized more succinctly and my sincere thanks in advance to anyone who does so.