Why scaling bitcoin would make it be less censorship-free?
Well, does the solution allow full nodes to function over anonymizing networks like ToR, for example.
One can also argue than having to pay 100$ fee just to send a transaction is a form of censorship and exclusion.
People are certainly liberal with the use of the word "censorship" these days. If you want to argue that market forces are censorship, perhaps you should start another thread.
Anyhow, bitcoin is much more than just censorship-free money.
Maybe we are getting to the crux of the divide. Bitcoin is different things for different people. So it's expected that they would argue for changes that enhance a particular property.
I look at it like this. What does Bitcoin allow me to do that nothing else on the planet allows me to do. Those properties are what I consider Bitcoin's real strengths.