I'm more of the opinion that Bitcoin will succeed, provided that it does not fail, and that a misstep can easily be worse than doing nothing.
Intelligent people may disagree with this.
The question is, what more qualifies as "doing nothing":
- Letting Bitcoin operate with constantly full blocks, which has never been done before, or
- Continuing to let Bitcoin operate with non-full blocks, effectively uncapped,* as it always has
?*
Of course a large part of the debate is over whether the current hard cap is actually doing anything. So the appeal to conservatism implied by "doing nothing" just pushes the question back.