yes, the avg Venezuelan doesn't care about running a full node. he cares about reliable, cheap tx's. sad thing is, if we stay at 1MB blocks, he might never know about Bitcoin. and he certainly will never learn about the more complex concept of digital gold.
I agree actually that decentralization doesn't scale if it relies on ideological consensus dedication. And that is why a major overhaul of the design of crypto-currency is required in order to align the incentives properly for decentralization. Bitcoin's design is fundamentally flawed and can't be rescued. The forces are already in play that prevent even Bitcoin adopting my superior design which even Satoshi foresaw...
The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime.