I agree RC can use work over time.
Right now there is not really any relationship between RC and block size because RC is a "long term" resource manager (growth in blockchain resources over a period of days to years), as well as limiting spam by very small accounts. We don't really have anything to manage resources in the short term on the time scale of blocks (seconds to minutes), but I have some ideas about how this could work.
RE: First update of 2022 on BlockTrades work on Hive software