Contrast the system of "holy 1MB protecting decentralization", with satoshi's actual thoughts on the matter... 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287.msg7687#msg7687
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287.msg8810#msg8810
My, how far we've fallen down the Maxwellian rabbit hole.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287.msg7687#msg7687
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=287.msg8810#msg8810
My, how far we've fallen down the Maxwellian rabbit hole.
gmaxwell > satoshi. Yeah, I said it.
There were some really serious bugs in Satoshi's code; who fixed those bugs? Core team. Give it up, Satoshi was inspired, but not the Second Coming. Someone better than Peter Todd or gmaxwell will turn up one day, too. Inspired by all of them; ruled by none of them