In case of a spam event the network is not screwed at all , because it ' s very expensive for the spammer and so the event cannot take longIf the current backlog is a spam attack , then it shows that there are spammers who do not find it too expensiveYou can see that the bulk of the backlog is not minfee transactions , but transactions that , at the time they were issued , paid what they thought were priority fee . It is just that the priority fee kept increasing as the backlog was growing . So , if this is a spam attack , the spammer is more sophisticated than the previous ones and is adjusting his fees as the clients raise their . thanks to the block size limitThe 1 MB block size limit makes spam attacks easy , cheap , effective and long lived . If it was 100 MB , there would be neither spam attacks nor organic backlogs . But the Chief Badger does not care for logic and common sense .