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Well that’s the question and the reason for the block war and the BTC/BCH split.

I’m not sure myself. Attempt to drive people towards LN or other “second layer” solutions for payments? Or deliberate attempt to create a high fee market for miners? Or attempt to keep bandwidth and storage costs down to lower barrier to entry for mining, to keep it more decentralised?

Certainly the decision to keep the cap has caused the move from “digital currency” to “digital gold” / store of wealth.