The requirements so far did not include ensuring that the storage directory is not mounted with noexec. Frankly, I would see it as a nice security feature to make sure that the node does not accidentally receive a malicious binary to store. I myself did that long time ago already.
While I applaud anyone working towards more consistent communication on node operation changes, please change the tone.
I know Alexey implies here that unless you spend an hour per day going through almost all threads on the forum, and in other thread he did imply you need to carefully study almost all commits made to the code, calling people names will not bring change.