Well, no. Nowhere does he say "that's closer to Satoshi's vision". Perhaps you are referring to the following?: "more closely aligned to Satoshi’s original white paper"? For that is something he actually does say - perhaps the closest to what you erroneously claim he said. If we're going to have a meaningful dialogue, you're going to need to speak with precision. Why don't you answer this, then point out which particular numbered stated attributes you believe to be at odds with this claim?
This is what I'm having problem with:
As many Bitcoin and Core developer supporters have indicated, the Bitcoin Cash philosophy is more closely aligned to Satoshi’s original white paper
...essentially implying that there is some consensus, even from bitcoin supporters, that bch is following the vision of satoshi better than btc, and then "backs it up" with a quote - when in fact you could insert another 100 quotes that are a condemnation.
I don't know if he wants to play "balanced" or something, but it's not a case of balance, it's a case for accuracy.
Do you claim that every BTC user runs a fully-validating, non-mining wallet client (often erroneously referred to as a 'full node')? Do you claim that no BCH user runs a fully-validating, non-mining wallet client? If the answers respectively are not 'yes' and 'yes', then I fail to see what your point is. Neither is purely peer-to-peer, and neither is purely client-server.
Per your rationale, if BTC, say, has 20.000 nodes and BCH has 20 nodes, they are the same, in their neither being pure p2p or pure client/server... yet, if you aren't intellectually dishonest, you realize that there is a big quality difference.
The solution is so clear in its simplicity, it is truly stunning that you do not get it. _IF_ we were to reach a point where the fees were insufficient to incentivize any given miner to mine, then blocks will not be mined. This will create more demand for transaction processing. More demand & lees supply => prices rise to the point where block mining is incentivized. What price? The price of mining a transaction onto the blockchain. The price we call 'transaction fee'.
That would create an anomalous mining scheme, where miners only bother if they have a batch of txs to do with fees and then disappear... then they'll wait for a good backlog to buildup plenty of fees and give it a shot again... it would be something like a difficulty adjustment scheme, but based on real-time intention of people who want to transact. If the last block was confirmed recently = no serious backlog for the miner to even bother with. Let it build up several thousand txs and then try to mine.