I like this. It's so easy to paint the other side -- whoever that is -- as either idiots or bad actors, when really, there are obvious tradeoffs to everything, and people can reasonably prefer different ones.
The actual blocksize war was before my time, but when I started learning about it the big block side seemed the obvious right side. As I understood the ecosystem better, and the forces at play, I flipped. I'm glad the small blockers won the day, but I can definitely see the other perspective.