It’s important to remember the original argument as it evolves over time.
In war, the winner takes it all and the looser is evil personified.
The blocksize wars, were not originally against large blocks. Small blockers (devs) were against making the requirements to run a node outside the scope of an enthusiast to run at home for a couple of hundred dollars.
Zooming out further, historians accurately corrected the “Blocksize wars” name to be the “Fork wars”, whereby the small blockers prevented miners from activating a soft fork to allow larger blocks. If you could permit soft forks, then you can recover lost coins like Ethereum, or, worse still, increase the 21M Coin limit.
Zooming out further, as the smaller blockers won the war, while managing to increase the blocksize from 1 – 2MB, while increasing it further to 4MB of compressed storage using SegWit.
SegWit led to Taproot which led to the ability to create Ordinals, or Bitcoin NFTs, or as many people call it Spam.
Thus the blocksize war itself, had unintended consequences of creating the current OP_RETURN war which is trying to reclaim the small blocks for transactions, which have precious little space available as it is.
In the blocksize war, we made increasing the block size an act of pure evil. I suggest it isn’t. I suggest that while we ensure that it is possible for most people to be able to run their own node, increasing the blocksize within that limit is perhaps desirable if you wish to close the gap between Lightning payments and on chain transactions.
Currently there is no apparent issue, but as Bitcoin adoption progresses, there is going to be a gap between the liquidity potential of Lightning and the minimum viable transaction value for the mainchain.
I have recently become aware of the Ark protocol, which appears an interesting option, but it is yet another attempt at making transaction space available.
But the real question is should we consider the ultimate heresy of increasing the blocksize?
This post was prompted by this NOSTR article:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsfz0y3evdpzhwqhushn5w744magjzuy99v58w6me9eewk02q6trqqs75v3y