We are nowhere close to "everything will suck soon" tm. You guys have been saying that for a year now btw.
Actually several years. We've been repeatedly pointing at the same stupid, unnecessary hard ceiling, and pointing out that the inexorable trend of increasing transactions has us on a clear intersect.
In the meantime, we have recently gone from things never sucking in regards to capacity, to things sucking for brief flashes of time. The issue is not how much one needs to pay to get a transaction through, the issue is that with the current block size,
no more than about 350,000 transactions can be processed in a day. Period. No matter how much money is thrown at the transactions.You're making the ridiculously simple assumption that transaction demand is inelastic ... when all evidence points to the fact that it is highly elastic.
There are a majority of small, nonsensically so, transactions that wouldn't happen and have no economic rationale for including in a globally distributed ledger secured by $1million+ per day security of hashing power and massively redundant distributed storage database.
Until anyone comes up with a solid, fact-based plan for how to secure the network in the medium and long term future it makes no sense to kick the can and hope for the best, without verifying first what component of transaction demand is currently inelastic.