The limit increase permits a much healthier outcome for the Bitcoin network and ecosystem.
Today is the limit increase, what will be tomorrow? Are people really wanting to go all in and bet all the todays consensus on the hard-fork? If you read Gavin post about the need for hard-fork, its a totally fear-based move with arguments Bitcoin will be replaced by Altcoins, this means its a matter of time until another need for a hard-fork happen and next time it wont be as trivial need as just increase block-size. I predict next hard-fork will want to increase the number of coins.
So no arguments against, just anti-fork by the rule? If I'm not mistaken, bitcoin has already been forked twice (2013 and 2010?). Are you sure you're on the very first fork?
The big difference here is that the earlier forks fixed obvious problems. The giga-bloatchain fork does just the opposite. To add insult to injury, 140 tps doesn't even com remotely close to the starry-eyed dreams of being the universal one-world currency that does everything for everyone that so many of you mouth-breathers are peddling (and/or buying.)
I'll tell you (and the Bitcoin Foundation) what. State what you want Bitcoin to become, put it to numbers, and fork the motherfucker to a value which achieves it. None of this weaselly backdoor incremental crap. There is no legitimate reason for not doing so other than fear of losing the fish you've got on the line and trying to reel it on slowly.
Do that and you'll have my full support...and, parenthetically, you can buy most of my BTC as well.