non-luminous baryonic matter has long been a contender for dark matter, I think the technical term is Massive compact halo object aka MACHO (as opposed to WIMPS

non-luminous baryonic matter has long been a contender for dark matter, I think the technical term is Massive compact halo object aka MACHO (as opposed to WIMPS or Weakly interacting massive particles) so saying it still requires dark matter is accurate we could rewrite it to 'actually include some possibly non-exotic dark matter'. Because even though it reduces the amount of dark matter required it still has missing matter.