If we persist on doing that someone WILL take advantage of the free space. Now what happens if 8MB blocks get filled up way before the intended increase?
The connection of the common nodes aren't able to share easily this kind of blocks, so there will be orphan blocks, miners will lose money.
Do you know what happen when a miner lose money by doing something? Easy, he will stop doing it, because he wants more money.

It is easy, a simple logic, but all of you are full of propaganda.