Given the impressive recovery after 0.8.1, yes.
So core devs, have to wait for decade until shit happens and then fix it in 10 mins ?
No, not wait until last minute. Work together now to expand block size.
But doesn't that hurt the incentive structure for miners? Now we have to store more information, use more bandwidth and cpu to handle more transactions, decreasing the subsidy/"resource expenditure". Block scarcity will also decrease, keeping transaction fees low.
As a miner, I'll take replacing a NOOP with a contestable SPV proof over raising the block size any day of the week.