First BS refused to apply a blocksize increase as that would set a precedent so it instead softforked SegWit which initially had 35% support until they promised a 2MB increase with it.
Then when that wasn't catching in full, they scared people away from hardforks:
ROI of the largest LN hubs is 0.011%/year
The 20 LNBIG Lightning Network nodes have processed 80k payments and collected 5.74 USD in fees in the last month. Extrapolating, thats $68.88 per year
https://bit.ly/2G50frh
I earned more than that for my shitposts on memo. :D
The only benefit of increasing the size would be to make it even cheaper to embed data (it is already cheap enough imo). The downside is it makes it cheaper to attack/bloat the chain.
The size was made just big enough to to where it is the cheapest way to embed data without bloating the UTXO set.
Sure. But I see no reason not to increase OP_RETURN on BCH as well. I guess it is the miners who decide if they want to mine a huge OP_RETURN tx. Yes?
The only benefit of increasing the size would be to make it even cheaper to embed data (it is already cheap enough imo). The downside is it makes it cheaper to attack/bloat the chain.