[hombre_fatal]

Your speculation doesn't square well with the original whitepaper that preempts your concerns by pointing out how you don't have to run a full node. It introduces SPV and points out you just need to store 80byte block headers (total of 50MB in 2021). (Satoshi was a big believer in SPV)

[Laforet]

I was more or less quoting the point of view of the current crop of developer who are very keen to keep the status quo. Not that I necessarily agree with all of their arguments, however they make good counter points to the other extreme viewpoint of "let's have 4GB blocks tomorrow and everything will be A-OK"