The experiment will likely fail if it the network is NOT upgraded and the limit eventually removed.
Nonsense.
Bitcoin does not "fail." It gains strength when,
and only when, faced with adversity.
I was being a bit facetious because of this nonsensical comment:
If a guy in Venezuala (or Florida) can't be his own private bank by running a full node over TOR on a slow 5mb DSL line, this experiment has failed.