The block size wars are not over.

They have only just begun.

Explanation:

Until a Bitcoin chain really sees massive adoption, the block size wars are not over, no matter how money printers inflate the price of BTC.

Until BTC is massively adopted in real life, and not just in fake news - we will not be able to see what measures it takes w.r.t. the block size. No argument I've seen can explain away the need for substantial block space increases on L1.

L2's won't work reliably without it.

If BCH sees adoption, it will easily win the block size war debate. We already know that larger blocks are not a technical issue, it's been proven.

The real winners of the blocksize wars so far? Other coins, like ETH, SOL, XRP. One has to start asking difficult questions about motive.

The demand for transaction capacity has moved to such other coins, which incidentally often provide other features like more powerful programmability than BTC.

But the important point is they have essentially proven that they can handle that demand and scale - even if sometimes with bumps and fits. Technically Bitcoin could and should learn from them. There is not much rocket science involved there.

At the very least, the broader picture is one of defeat for the central argument of the "small blocker" faction who were in favor of strictly limited capacity, which was that bigger blocks would realistically be harmful to the blockchain.