I don't see why people can't wrap their heads around this simple concept..... and instead they would rather risk everything falling apart over a whole redesign of the currently stable system.
Input?
I don't think increasing the maximum blocksize to 8MB (static, not Gavin's crazy idea) would be a whole redesign of the current code. It's a tiny, tiny tweak.
Too bad Satoshi disappeared, this is what he would have done already.