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Because bitcoin's aim is to have the most decentralized, permission-less, neutral, hard money that exists. There's a good book on this called "the bitcoin standard" that discusses the core principles bitcoin hold. Any deviation from these core values, the bitcoin community will reject.

Without core principles such as maximizing decentralization, a blockchain is just a linked list data structure. It significantly lacks value if it has any value in the first place.

Every bit of information you push on the block chain, the cost is taken up by the node operators. The node operators exist as a guard to the decentralized network. Therefore, minimizing the cost for each node operator is essential to a decentralized network. That means the cost to put data on the blockchain can't be zero, unless you have a centralized network.