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It's often forgotten in the flamewars that it resulted in a block size increase on both sides of the fork. One of them with a hard fork and one with a soft fork (segwit).
There are quotes from Satoshi where he writes about bigger blocks but also ones where he writes about keeping blocks small. In the end Satoshi does not get to decide, the network participants do, which I think is one of the best aspects of Bitcoin.
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