it gives me such a headache that bitcoin core refuses to raise the blocksize. Their main argument is to keep the cost of running a node cheap due to space but this makes transactions so expensive that people are priced out.

Bitcoin at this point is a failure. Yes the price increases but its unusable for most of the world. Its why many OG bitcoiners like roger ver support bch.

Maybe nullius should read the whitepaper and see what bitcoin was meant to be.