But what assurances would a block size increase truly give the network that it wouldn't suffer the same kind of congestion that it's currently experiencing? What it might do is encourage Ordinals users/developers to embed larger data sizes in the Bitcoin blockchain.
assurances can be made. such as quashing the ability that transactions can take up so much space for one transaction.(lean tx)
assurances can be made that spam be charged at a premium. (fee forumlae)
assurances can be made by not relaying unconditioned opcodes
code is great, code creates rules, core devs relaxed the rules, they can strengthen them again