if memory serves both Adam Back and Joseph Poon said that SC and LN respectively needed a bigger block in any case.
(I'm actually in a hurry as soon as I've time I'll post reference to the source)
There is a huge difference between "a bigger block" and proposing to scale block sizes upward to the moon in an attempt to meet the core scaling demands of the system that way.
Sure there's a big difference and I was not endorsing any particular proposal on the table, be it BIP 100, 101, 102 you name it.
I just wanted to make clear that all the parties (modulo MP) agree on the fact that in a way or another the 1MB max block size has to be changed.