causing a transaction backlog and fee pressure NOW kills off the desire and utility of bitcoin.
How do you know? Any evidence or just more empty conjecture?
evidence... hmmm
how about people frustrated with bitcoin to such a point they are actively promoting LN....
how they are frustrated with waiting for bitcoin innovation that they are willing to losen their morals and principles and understanding of bitcoin to actively want to have a different network where funds are locked into counterparty management(banking).
every person that WANTS LN are people secretly pee'd off with bitcoin fee's and limited transaction ability... if they were not peed off, and happy with bitcoin. they would not be so hard nose about promoting LN as LN would not be something they would want/need
That's obvious, though. Wouldn't you rather get something for free rather than paying the actual cost? Neither Bitcoin nor Lightning are perfect, but it's the closest we can get to having our cake and eating it too.
If you keep giving users more block space for free, they'll keep taking it,
regardless of the long term costs. Raising the ceiling higher and higher means there is no mechanism to enforce fees. How's that going to work a few halvings down the road when block rewards are amounting to little more than 1.5 BTC? "Free transactions for all" sounds like a nice socialist paradise, but miners aren't in this for charity.
Every one of us has incentive to avoid paying fees. So, why do people like me still oppose bigger blocks and prefer the settlement layer approach? Because I also hold bitcoins, and I know that the block size limit is integral to guaranteeing the security of Bitcoin and thus the value of my coins.