decision to force a fee market is a centralized solution
On it's face this is a nonsense argument since any development decisions are centralized in the same manner.
Increase the blocksize, decrease the blocksize, or leave it alone, they are all (centralized) development decisions.
It's also false that anything is really centralized about it because if there were truly a consensus for change (over the objections of the 'centralized' developers) there would be a successful fork.
Yes all dev decisions are essentially centralized, including the decision to NOT do something. Since that is trivially true, I am talking about the effect of the decision. And in one case miners can optimize their profitability by choosing to include transactions while in another case they are artificially limited.
Listen to New Liberty, he got this completely right. Whether miners can optimize
their profitability is beside the point, because in doing so they also influence
others' costs, and they are most certainly
not optimizing that.
The idea of a sensible market arising for block size in the current structure if the consensus block size rule (which is the only mechanism for the "others" in the previous paragraph to participate in such a market) is a fantasy.