You are literally going out of your way to nuke the platform.

Just after the fork there was a plan to nuke the platform for real. Because of those who meant something to me on the platform the plan was shelved. It turns out that it is similar to the issue going down at present with Bitcoin Core vs Knots. I.E. embedded data that could make running a witness node a vulnerability.

Here is the general idea's White Paper and here is how far things progressed before its shelving.