This comment will be most likely ignored (as I’ve noticed non-technical comments get little consideration).

IMO this whole story raises much worry because it has revealed that core:

1) has very little consideration for non-economic node runners

2) their reaction was authoritarian, incredibly arrogant and immature

3) the reasons provided were not sufficiently strong and had way too many assumptions (pretty clear it was done for gains)

4) suddenly bitcoin is not a database for money but rather a database for whatever

5) increasing the limit by 1000% instead of in smaller incremental steps is not a cautious way to proceed (what happened to move slowly and not brake things?)

The change itself could be ok, but it’s the whole other aspects cited above that are worry af. This could be the first of many worse steps, gotta keep the vigilant paranoia up man