I mean I’m against the status quo, the status quo isn’t purely a Puerto Rican matter it is a matter for all of America. It affects our country to have relationships like that, and IMO it isn’t an appropriate relationship. The era of colonies and empires has passed. The United States is a union of sovereign states, while I can countenance some arrangements involving very small countries where there would actually be genuine difficulties in them exercising self-government (American Samoa, Guam) I generally think everyone needs to be in or out, because we shouldn’t maintain colonies in 2022.
Puerto Ricans of course should get some say, but the rest of the country is not obligated to maintain the current status quo, the current status quo is not neutral for the United States. Keep in mind too, Puerto Rico has a population almost 10 times all other U.S. unincorporated territories combined, PR could absolutely function as its own country, and if it is not interested in doing so it should be a State, if it is interested in doing so it should be granted independence.
I would be fine with continuing a loose agreement with PR akin to what we have with Micronesia which would allow Puerto Rico to forego maintaining its own military if it wanted.