It's almost like these 1MB'er wants Bitcoin to die on purpose. Madness.
You fear we must fix Bitcoin until it breaks in order to save it from certain death? I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Bitcoin is antifragile. It thrives in the face of adversity and scarcity.
The madness here is the megolomania and hubris displayed by the Monopolist Maximalist camp.
Satoshi fully expected Bitcoin's supporters would fight very hard to keep the system small/light/nimble/defensible/diffuse/trustless/resilient:
Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale.
Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices.
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Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset will scale just fine, because cheap hard drives.
Bitcoin developers might get increasingly tyrannical about expanding the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of retail users and small businesses.