Ok, but did the Lightning Network not throw a fox into the chicken coop? Satoshi's idea was for the Block reward to decrease over time and for the tx's to increase, so that the miners rewards would eventually replace the Block reward? Now we are implementing a 2cnd layer solution that would effectively reduce micro payments from the Bitcoin Blockchain and this reduces the tx volume.

We are hoping the Lightning Network will solve the scaling limitations and that it will increase adoption, but what happens if this does not happen? We need to look to a future where the miners rewards needs to replace the Block rewards.