My understanding was that the 1MB limit was only ever a temporary measure to limit spam when there wasn't much real transaction volume. Pretty sad if this ends up holding Bitcoin back. Guess altcoins will be the future then.
so do i understad right: Bitcoin is over - one way or another?
No matter which side wins the argument, bitcoin is done and will cease to exist?
Well you'd think people could just learn to use Electrum or similar, rather than downloading the whole blockchain.
If you want any sort of privacy at all with Electrum you need to run your own private electrum server somewhere, which of course requires its own full node running under the electrum server software and another large database on top of it.
This is a very reasonable solution for running a wallet on a portable machine which you tether to a more "solid" base for blockchain information. The thing is running electrum the right way involves having a full node somewhere.