The intentions may have been good but they have been too overzealous. If someone is so poor that can't afford to run a node with slightly larger blocks, they are too busy trying to survive to worry about running a node anyways. Although at least with agents using lightning might get easier, but scaling lightning still requires open and close transactions on the L1 and there is not enough room for any kind of mass adoption of Bitcoin at current block size. Especially when you consider that we need to scale for not just humans to use Bitcoin, but for AI agents to also use Bitcoin. I don't know if AI usage of the chain was even an idea discussed during the blocksize wars or not.