that depends on how the batching is done. It's possible for multiple people to prepare several transactions off-chain and perform transaction cut through in such a way that only one utxo is consumed on the base layer. That is a form of batching, and lightning channel closures are an example: all the transactions that happened in the channel get "cut through." Only a single utxo is consumed on the base layer, and two new utxos are usually created from it. But that single transaction "includes" a whole batch of transactions that happened inside the channel. I want more stuff like that.

I agree it would be fantastic if more wallets enabled you to construct batched transactions.  But by your logic, that would result in larger transactions and therefore fewer txs per block, even though people are doing more with a single transaction.

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> Blocks are full now and have been for months

But each user uses block space inefficiently, consuming many inputs and creating many outputs without batching their transactions together with other users. Fixing this through software can increase our throughput closer to bitcoin's maximum, which is far above 7 tps, as demonstrated by the fact that so many blocks do so much better than that.

On a related note:

The average tps in the past 24 hours was 7.65 tps, and 82 blocks in the past 24 hours had more than 7 tps. One even reached 11.95 tps.

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TPS Counter: help debunk the "7 tps" myth

Blocks are full now and have been for months. i.e. users have been purchasing all the space. Apart from the few empty blocks that get mined they are as close to 4M weight units as possible. I'm not seeing why it doesn't make sense to say Bitcoin maxes out at 7tps, when that's what we observe empirically.