Yup. It had broad support among people who have actively contributed to the project. Everyone else remained free to stop updating, choose a different policy limit, run an alternative implementation like btcd, or switch to a fork such as Knots.
It wasn't done to serve Citrea. Citrea was just another example of why the OP_RETURN limit was counterproductive: it incentivized the use of fake pubkeys, which are a worse outcome for the network.