Completely disagree!
Listening nodes aren't "checks and balances" on miners. Miners are independent actors. Why no big miner proposes increase of coinbase? Game theory dictates: some more reward in the near term, crash of mistrust in the long term. Game theory, math, protects us from unbounded greed, nothing else. More miner invested in the coin - the better this agent will behave in regards to the coin's future success. Scaling issue hurted wallet processors the most, miners are pretty much indifferent towards blocksize if ecosystem is growing