I've read some articles about the 1MB vs. 8MB, and I still don't know half of it..
Wouldn't doing it this way increase the block size whenever the market needs it to?
Ex, when it reaches 0.5MB, raise it to 2MB. When it reaches 1.5MB, raise it to 3MB.
There's probably a good explanation for why this wouldn't work, but I couldn't find it.
If you are talking about writing the code so that it automatically increases, then the problem is that any malicious actor that wants to expand the limit VERY quickly could just make sure that ALL of the blocks that they mine are completely full every time (by filling it with transactions that pay no fees and send bitcoins from themselves to themselves).
If you are talking about creating a new hard fork release every time, do you really want to go through this messy debate over, and over, and over, and over every time the block needs to be expanded again?