In 2014 Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar showed how an increase in orphans reduces effective network-wide hash rate and how an increasing block size increases orphans.
Discussing the limit without any mention of why the limit is present seems dishonest to me.
This is a very weird article. Yes, the wall is internal, but there is a reason it is there.
The article is from Bitcoin Unlimited. But in their own words at https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/resources/1txn.pdf
Effect on Network Security
In 2014 Yonatan Sompolinsky, Aviv Zohar showed how an increase in orphans reduces effective network-wide hash rate and how an increasing block size increases orphans.
Discussing the limit without any mention of why the limit is present seems dishonest to me.