Perhaps it's just me, but if people aren't running nodes now, I don't see how lowering the block size would encourage more people to run nodes. Storage prices are no longer a limiting factor, and this would serve to further push onchain fees higher.
People just don't care enough.
It's not only storage that's the issue, the utxo set is stored in memory, larger blocks expand the utxo set at a faster rate. The larger utxo set size the more processing power is needed to validate each block which increases the cost to run a node.
Nodes shouldn't be encouraged to bloat the utxo set 🤓
