The base layer has to stay VERY comfortably within Moore's law.
If one is to use Moore's law as the metric, computing power has increased by a factor of 64 in the time of Bitcoin's existence.
Lessee.... what's 1MB times 64? Humm....
Use of net resources scales super-linearly. And Moore's Law has had a serious stop in the latest years. I
know you know all that. Come on. Please.