We can and should view the 'bloatchain' or 'gavincoin' hard fork effort as simply an attack.
An attack? To remove a constraint that was always meant to be temporary? That's an attack?
Did I stutter?
Lot's of things that were hypothesized such as pruning have yet to happen. Also it was very unclear who would be embracing the system and why in the early times. With six years of history and ecosystem evolution it is perfectly relevant to re-evaluate certain things. And, as always, it would be simplistic to assume that everyone who was involved were always fully transparent and accurate with their thoughts. Satoshi had to make the best use of the resources he found at his disposal, and he himself may not have had a God-like understanding of all of the factors anyway.
That still fails to explain why you think raising the limit is an attack.