I'll add it to the list of things like sidechains, pruning and other things that keep getting raised when you run out of arguments. All sound great in theory, but actually need to be finished, ready to go and proven reliable before they can be considered viable alternatives. Until that time comes, the 1MB limit has to go.
Open Transactions is ready.
The developer himself posted
this reply on Reddit:
OT is perfectly operational now, but without voting pools, you would have to trust the server to hold the bitcoins.
We expect to see wide adoption in the Bitcoin world once voting pools are operational. And we are definitely working hard on making them into a reality. But we want to do it right. There are several different teams working full-time on this.
Do your fucking homework before answering.
You first. If it's not trustless yet, it's not ready.