The dilettantes and sociopaths got butthurt when the engineers came up with a good working interim solution to avert short term capacity constraints without a dangerous hardfork ... so the dilettantes and sociopaths created a grand experiment in theoretical free market constructs and unleashed Unlimited Bitcoins "emergent consensus" hand-wavy, untested techno-anarchy. Chinese communist miners got butthurt when the dilettantes and sociopaths told them they were the most important bitcoiners in the world and then the engineers told them, actually they're not.

Up to speed now ...? I want to know why Satoshi didn't just make the blocksize a user-selectable parameter when he wrote v0.1, it just seems so simple and easy and elegant, he must have been such an idiot for messing that up?