Except if everyone else does it as well. Then you're stuck.
That is not how fee markets work , there are upper limits to how much spammers and users will spend on fees. My wallets adjust just fine and insure I always get in the next block. There is never a moment where I have to worry that my tx will time out within the new 72 hour mempool window.
You're right. That's not how it works. Because it doesn't. You're kicking other users off the network by paying higher fees. You're kicking out people who give the network value.
Of course you can get txs through. You're a programmer who's been reading BIPs and have been involved with the scaling debate.
But all those 0.0001 tx people who's shitting their pants because their $5K takes several hours to confirm; for them, the fee market doesn't work. Their txs aren't less important than yours. If they knew they would have to up that fee to 0.001, they would have done so.
Not changing the 1MB limit is an attack on Bitcoin. Not changing the 1MB limit is disruption. Not changing the limit is to rewrite what Bitcoin is. Not changing the 1MB limit is to change consensus.