i have heard on good authority that the Core dev WILL be increasing the limit doing something like 2-4-8 Soon®.
Oh yes, let's rush into the next battle of the civil war. We might be able to push the price under $100 if we act fast!
This time many GigaBlockers, because they won't accept such an insultingly tiny/obviously placative increase, will be in alliance with the 1MBers. The BIP248 coalition is powerful, but not powerful enough to defeat the strange HugeChange+NoChange bedfellows.