Did you think Satoshi put that limit in at 1MB to be there forever? 
No, I suspect he meant to add other mechanisms to control in-block spam in its place (or at least I might say, hoped to, but may not have known how to do it), but never got to it and no one else picked up that work either. Now we are kind of screwed.
How are we screwed if we have time to try to find solutions?
Even though there is a lot of drama and shit flinging fits around here, I still believe bitcoin (by its community of supporters) will find a solution to the cliff we are going to go over at some point.
Having intermediaries trying to profit by keeping the bitcoin block size at 1MB is questionable to me.