I see what's happening here. The miners are looking at losing half their block reward and they want to make it up in fees. So they are using the core devs to block ANY blocksize increase and the technical objections are an excuse.  I actually agree with Prof. Trolfi that they will find excuses no matter what.

Screw these guys. We don't need them. There's plenty of people who would rather mine for 12.5 BTC/block with BTC at $400 than 25 BTC/block with BTC at $150.

This is an attempted coup alright, but it's from idiot miners who want a bigger slice of a smaller pie. If we cave on this, they will never allow our network to become competitive enough to disrupt the banksters.

Fine. I'll call your bluff. Let's see you mine for $100 coins profitably. I've gone without revenue since 2013 and I can go years more. How long can you  mine at a loss?

Fuck. You. Scale or die.