Spam limit working as intended 

no the transactions centralized control deemed undesirable were not written to the blockchain but bloated the Mempool, something that was not supposed to happen.
Mempool bloat? Meh, just another spam attack. Honeybadger eats those for lunch.
$0.06 to get in the next block! Who's buying?
You keep telling us we should stop bitcoin for coffee, what your encouraging it now. Each transaction is subsidizes by $5-10 in monetary inflation, such ignorance calling a $0.06 increase in fees a win. Core 0.12 claims to only allow transactions that meet a specific centralized control policy to be admitted to the mempool, so yes a win for Core 0.12 nodes and a big middle finger to the rest of the Bitcoin network.
Do you have daddy issues?
The network, not Core, not centralized policies, decide if your transaction is good or not.
If you can't pay then you get the big middle finger indeed, simple as that.