The urgency isn't even in block size or scalability. The urgency is in fixing the goddamn decision-making process among the core devs. You think Hearn was wrong about that?
From an objective standpoint, looking at Hearn's contributions as a whole (the database change that caused the first fork, the redlisting coins proposal, and XT in particular) I think one could come to the logical conclusion that Hearn has been compromised by the NSA or some other three letter agency, likely recruited while he was still with Google.
You're not answering my question. Has the decision making process broken down or not? Has their even been a joint statement among the core devs regarding this controversy been issued? No, of course not. It's fucking embarrassing. Give us a time frame on when the block size patch will be implemented. something.
The beauty of Bitcoin is that we don't have to trust Hearn or Gavin or anybody. We trust the code. We trust a valid argument, no matter who makes it. Core devs need to get their shit together toot sweet. If it takes a hard fork to make that happen, so be it.