then why does a transaction with a 1 satoshi fee take longer to process even though we are not at our limit yet?
explain me this.
Because majority of miner nowdays use the bitoin core as published by the devs and that compiles blocks following a mix of commercial and alturistic rules.
Majority of miner do not care about this since inflation provides three-four magnitudes higher income than fees at the moment. They will. And this discussion is about the future and the limits.
well, in the future miners will either adapt and make their own rules, or leave the mining industry because they are too broke to continue. And smarter miners will take over.
judging by your post, you'll be one of the broke ones, because you're too lazy or stupid to make your own rules.
it's the miners that make the rules, not the protocol.
but the protocol should not be a hard limit, because that would just destroy bitcoin.
I'm not going to waste my time thinking of more examples to point this out, i have better things to do.