Also nobody said you need to make the blockchain 12tb now.

Just holding on to the 1mb block size because somebody wants to be able to run a node on a $50 usd raspberry pie or his apple watch and every user on the network needs to suffer from high fees, slow transaction times, terrible self hosted lightning onboarding etc. is just a completely retarded argument.

Just like Bill Gates said in the 80s, 640kb of ram should be enough for everybody... 

Scaling the block size to 10mb or so would solve so many problems, help the bitcoin adoption tremendously, make it cheap to open lightning channels, move away from custodial wallets etc. 

But, when a majority of the developers is paid by companies which have direct incentives to keep the blocksize small so they can sell their solutions ( Blockstream, Lightning Labs etc. ), this obviously does not happen.

That people say Bitcoin is decentralized when it is actually controlled by a few entities is a mystery to me.  

 people constantly made an argument during the blocksize wars stating "we can't go to 1 TB blocksize by next tuesday so let's not do a blocksize increase at all." it was a stupid thing to say 

 Yea a lot was really stupid, a lot was propaganda and censorship, a lot of promises and vaporware. Now we are here and Bitcoin is fucked.