Ethereum contract devs: if we could 10x the gas limit but, to do so, we had to 10x the gas cost of CREATE, CREATE2 and SSTORE, would that still be a net improvement? Why or why not? 

IOW, if state growth is our main bottleneck to scale L1 gas, should we just fix it with pricing?

Kind of defeats the purpose to increase costs in tandem with the limit, no?

I thought the longer-term idea was some form of state-expiry/pruning?

If there were already possible-but-not-viable stateless use cases out there, an idea like this should reveal them. 🤔