transaction capacity doesnt fall into that class. it was always assumed to grow...1mb was temporary bloat measure, always assumed to increase...even core devs want capacity increase via segwit etc.
you've always been anti bitcoin, anti success... go back to shilling. have fun.
"it was always assumed to grow" except that that wasn't explicitly part of the protocol, and that the protocol was made such that there is now a specialized population in the bitcoin ecosystem, that have 1) invested a lot in hardware 2) have their revenues (especially in the future) very strongly linked to a fee market.
When you are on the receiving end of a market, scarcity matters. Bitcoins have value because they are scarce. Transactions have value because they are scarce. If you are the salesman of transactions and you have invested a lot in the hardware doing so, you want to sell them expensively, and so you prefer them to be scarce enough.
The PoW protocol as it has been specified in bitcoin, whether this was on purpose or not, has design quircks to it that make that an oligarchy of players would rise up (the simplistic PoW scheme open to rapid ASIC implementation and open to pool formation, the very slow re-adjustment of difficulty, the confusion between PoW as seigniorage burner, as consensus decider, and as cryptographic security all together, the halvings scheme....) that would be the gatekeepers of bitcoin ; being able to decide over the fee market, and in the future, over whose transactions will be accepted and whose transactions will never be confirmed, with all the power that comes with this decision capacity ; but these oligarchs will at the same time be so heavily hardware-invested in the system that they will be extremely motivated to keep it running well.
In as much as there was an epoch of "the Pope and the cardinals" that had inherited the moral authority from Satoshi-god-almighty, Core, and ended up being like the real Popes and cardinals, now, we are witnessing the transition to the Governors, that are deeply invested in industrial bitcoin, and will be the deciders of how it is used, under what conditions, and against what fee.
Bitcoin was simply designed that way. On purpose or by ignorance, I don't know.
