The larger blocks would not have increased throughput 10,000x , which is needed to compete with visa, but it wood have bloated the blockchain. But lightning does.

But the argument of big blockers was definitely to make it "peer to peer" cash ..as Satoshi envisaged .. sure ..they were not good technical solutions .. Lightning is good one .. right ! But if you don't have lightning ..and have small block ..then it leads you to #gold ..isn't it ?. Btw ..the problem with lightning is why do we have discount ! Thanks to lightning the fees is sinking ..even though BTC is all time high !