This is a straw man. Just because transaction fees were too high for your transaction to be economically viable, does not discredit the fact that bitcoin remove

This is a straw man. Just because transaction fees were too high for your transaction to be economically viable, does not discredit the fact that bitcoin removes trust in third parties to send and receive currencies. It is not up to the miners to increase the block size, in fact miners were very much in favor of doing it. Bitcoin has other important constituents (users, core devs, wallet devs, exchanges) that would need to be on board for any modifications made to the core protocol to go through.