No, I said over 10,000.

, I set a base.

No, I said over 10,000. And, this is not a constant 4 million a second and there will be free as well.

I set a base.

10 min is set (in stone).

Some blocks will have more TXs, some will have peaks.

10k is (worst case), with a 4 million TPS peak and many free TXs.

In time, even at that size

0.0025*16,000,000 = 40k — it is less than this

As stated, free standard TXs and ones that consolidate UTXO sets matter

Peaks need to be 100 to 1000 x the block capacity