It seems obvious that bigger blocks are not the answer, we need some other solution. Bigger blocks will just bloat the system, and make things worse.
Harddrive space is cheap. The argument was always that nodes must be available for all users to run no matter what income but why would anyone that cant afford to send a fraction of a bitcoin bother to run a node?
Scaling is going to be an issue for a while but why not uncripple bitcoin in the meantime until the lightning network can actually deliver?