the Core developers needs to making a fucking move already 
They have made moves, in the form of BIPs 100-104 and Lightning/Sidechains/Treechains. Project Apollo was not built in a day. We need to listen to the engineer and researcher Dilberts and Wallys, not the pointy-haired/headed bosses. Or this might happen again.
somebody needs to slap these dudes in the head and get them to increase the damn block size
Core dev dudes have no power to force Bitcoin's multi-year, multi-billion-dollar socioeconomic majority to do anything. Especially not a contentious (ie potentially disastrous) hard fork (ie catastrophic consensus failure).
I am not in support of a Core that does nothing but shill for BlockStream as we are heading for a shere cliff 
Ah yes, the contemporary classic 'Zomg, Bitcoin WILL LITERALLY DIEEE if it does not immediately conform to my preferences' conceit.
Please, fuck off back to /r/bitcoin_unsensored, or /v/bitcoinxt, or whatever vapid social media site you prefer.