Nodes will then have to follow the rules ascribed by miners, and their vote is pointless as consensus is formed by those who mine. Which means, Adam will still get kicked off the network, when the winning miners decide on 2MB blocks, and Adam only accepts 1.1MB.
You go wrong in thinking that miners are all-important. I clearly stated "the majority of nodes decide the consensus", not only miners.
As other have stated multiple times in this thread, miners have to be sensitive to where the real money comes from, ultimately.
As such, the "vote" expressed by BU nodes through the settings they choose to run, is an important piece of information to miners.
It is certainly not pointless. It would be pointless to ignore it, as a miner.
If the miners set the limits then nodes will be kicked off, and we end up with more and more centralization, as everything moves to bigger data centers.
If nodes set the limits, it opens up for sybil attacks as I described in an above post of mine.
You dont answer my questions. Either the mayority of nodes set the consensus rules or the miners do, which one is it?