Miners revenues are mandatory to ensure the network's security.
While the block reward tends to 0, it is natural for a fee market to emerge, or else there would not be any incentives left for the miners to keep spending the resources that a POW system requires.
Meanwhile, you can enjoy transacting for nearly nothing.
Yeah, that's my thought. A fee market should be allowed to emerge naturally, not artificially by restricting resources.
This is the purpose of the "artificial" restriction: prevent spamming and hence, allowing a fee market to emerge... naturally.
If no restriction in supply (as it also goes with the 21m cap), then there would not be any incentives for miners to pursue their amazing stacking of hashpower... which in the end ensures the system security.
You have it backwards. As fees go up, the usefulness of the network goes down. There is less of a competitive advantage over competing networks. The fee market can ONLY naturally emerge in the absence of an artificial restriction on capacity. The NATURAL restriction lies at the intersection of block propagation time (which would limit blocksize without a cap) and fees for larger blocks (more xactions=more fees) along with a certain head start in mining the next block.