There have been some tremendous changes to the core and big things on the horizon that will shortly be released like impulse which allows payment channels to perform secured instant confirmations(no ~10 min block conf. waits) http://impulse.is/impulse.pdf with all wallets.

This issue shouldn't be rushed and Gavin is doing the right thing by allowing critics time to point out weaknesses and the community to come to consensus.

If you cannot wait a couple more months for this hardfork to be implemented I suggest you sell all your BTC and invest in an unsecured and unstable alt with 1-3 devs that can push buggy code onto the users without a proper development and peer review process.

 P.S. concerning a few other members posting in this thread- When people cannot make a coherent and reasonable argument and have to rely ad hominems and pointless emotional ramblings that fail to complete a thought, I will simply ignore them as we should all strive to raise our standards. This does not indicate that I suggest people ignore others they disagree with or even dislike, but merely identify those that don't meet the minimum criteria of being capable of a valid conversation.

From all others, I am interested to hear clear and reasoned arguments against Gavin's Hardfork scalability road map.