About time! Anyone whining about this need to get their marbles examined.
The blockchain size is already turning into a serious problem... Don't speak with such a vicious tone when you don't know what you are talking about.
Of course it isn't. If you don't want to store the full chain, run an SPV client. If you do:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST4000DM000. Pruning is coming, so the storage "issue" will soon vanish completely.
Increasing the max block size does not mean that all blocks will increase in size - they'll increase when they need to. Does anyone actually take the position that it is better to let transactions back up than to marginally increase the incremental chain size?