So is Gavin back pedaling? Satoshi predicted that technology advancements would cather for problems like this in the future anyway.
So? Whoever Satoshi is (or the Satoshis are) they put their pants on in much the same way as anyone else. There is a potential for he/her/them to be wrong about or mis-estimate certain things.
Beyond that, it is not perfectly clear what the motivation for Bitcoin actually was. It remains a viable hypothesis that Bitcoin was designed from day one to be a psychological operation with the goal of either habituation people to a train of though, cutting off more threatening developments, or some other less obvious goal.
I personally don't favor this hypothesis vs. the null hypothesis, but I entertain it as possible yet. My favored hypothesis at this point is that Satoshi is/was an individual much like 'Dorian' (and probably is Dorian) and that things are not much more complex than that he/she/they had fairly straightforward goals for the project and that they are more or less as commonly understood. Also, to the point, that he/she/they did not have any sort of super-human command over all of the factors associated with something which fits into Bitcoin's sphere of influence (economic, technological, code implementation, etc.)
