For such a well written and cited article you sadly seem to make a mistake all to common with Bitcoin.

You assume Satoshi understood what he created.

The very basis for Bitcoins security is that the real users of the system, the people who have the monetary power to not value it at anything are running nodes.

If those people don't run nodes the rules of the system are just suggestions.

Satoshi never had the chance to understand this before leaving since it's not an obvious property of the system.