We will develop a way of not needing that amount of storage for regular coffee buyers.
"Let's increase the size of blocks now and create problems, for which we may or may not find a solution, later.
As opposed to "Let's never address future problems and almost guarantee that the network won't be able to cope with the number of transactions later by crippling it with an arbitrary limit. But that's ok, later is not now, right?"
Fork sounds good compared to falling behind on purpose.