Satoshi was being realistic about its own design unlike all of you small blockists who didn't had the genius to invent bitcoin. He obviously wasn't locked up in a prison of fear.
The conditions under which Satoshi himself established a block size limit, remain today.
No. The recent spam attacks prove this wrong. The limit is useless.
The spam attack proved the spam limit is useless

The spam attack proved some people are immune to logic and reason

Sure. The only thing that silly limit did is blocking miners to clear all the transactions at once. Mempools would not have grown that much and weaker nodes wouldn't be forced to shut down.
The limit is useless and is even proved to be a problem.