A clean mempool is desirable because it keeps your disk space ready for better uses than storing other people's spam
Regarding your syllogism, your first premise fails of configuration options have any other purpose beyond keeping data off the blockchain. And they do: the primary purpose of mempool policy, for example, is to police your mempool, not your blockchain.
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