Absolutely. Bitcoin should be small and slow, to ensure the network is indestructible.

But Bitcoin like this cannot scale. The Bitcoin Cashers wanted to trade some of this indestructibility for scalability. That’s unacceptable for a money that powers the entire world.

On layer twos, this would be fine. There is nothing more decentralizing than PoW, and less non-pruned nodes with millions of pruned nodes, backed by the absolute indestructibility of Bitcoin, is a small trade to fix Bitcoin’s scalability and privacy issues.