Also, as you can go through the article, you can see old BIPs about it. Even if you think, that blocks should be bigger, then which BIP you want to activate? Even if you rewrite them from hard-forks into soft-forks, then still, by seeing, what was proposed so far, none of them sounds like something, where you could reach consensus.
It's good point. Although for starter, we could exclude BIP that either put arbitrary number as block size limit or have dynamic change based on recent block size/percentage filled (due to risk of manipulation).
So we don't need to convince the miners but just the nodes, and I don't see any reason why they shouldn't lower their default fee. They have nothing to lose, right?
You'd have easier time convincing Bitcoin Core developer and contributor to lower default value of
minrelayfee.
Unless we still have the fear of spamming the network with ordinals or something?
I've said it few times. But if people fear that, they better propose making
OP_FALSE OP_IF ... OP_ENDIF as non-standard script since script inside it never executed anyway.