I was also a small blocker back in the day.
in retrospect, enshrining as-small-as-possible-blocksize-forever as Gospel and trying to move everything onto LN immediately was a mistake. The correct thin...
The fee pressure of 2017-2021 proved it empirically. When sending $20 onchain costs $30, users don't wait for L2 to mature — they just leave for other networks. Scaling L1 as far as economically viable before forcing migration makes more sense than making L2 the only option. The means became the end.