Yes, but the ongoing spam shows clearly that all full nodes are handling the traffic just fine. We were told that they would crash and burn from overloaded memory. Not true.
Wait, wasn't that exactly Hearn's main argument in his "the sky is falling if we don't increase the blocksize" blog post? So why do you see the fact that it did not prove true so far as
supporting your position of increasing the block size?
It provided evidence that the network can handle the increased load, and it confirmed that people do get frustrated by the confirmation delays.