the peasants' desire (...) is met with indifference/hostility/scorn from the people who matter.
Sums up the entire discussion nicely. A small minority of elitists want Bitcoin to benefit them and them alone. They don't feel Bitcoin should benefit the world, just themselves.
There's a balance to be struck between security and capacity and the balance is most certainly not two-thirds of a floppy disk.
Luckily for everyone, other companies are completely free to use the technology of the Bitcoin Bus (the blockchain engine) to build their own better buses.
Luckily for "those who matter", they can use another technology altogether if they don't want to share the bus with "peasants". Surely you'd prefer a chauffeur driven limo on another blockchain instead of riding the bus with the rest of us.
