That's not what it means to show your work.
I'll really not waste my time to prove obvious. :-) .. this mean I'll not print you book in leather with golden letters.
"Current technology cannot handle 24 GB blocks (and will not any time soon)" :-)
that may be correct but it's not a reason to limit to 1MB and avoid a block size to the 8MB, or is it?
24GB blocks would obviously show demand with off chain solutions, I suspect you think we will never get there and want to squeeze bitcoin for what its worth to make off-chain solutions viable.