Since we are already seeing full blocks becoming more prevalent than before and are likely going to see spikes in transactions with increasing merchant adoption which isn't slowing down that what do you propose, a last minute hardfork without a lot of testing and the negative P/R our community will get from the businesses and media when transactions won't confirm from an antiquated system that can only process between 2-7 tps?

What about decentralized projects like twister , lighthouse , and openbazaar that have limitations imposed by the 1MB block size?

Satoshi had a vision of Bitcoin that could scale up to handle transaction rates of major credit card merchants. Those of us that invested our time and money in bitcoin invested in this vision and do not want to betrayed whether it be changing the hardcap of 21 million or keeping the system limited at only 2-7tps.