As far as I am concerned, it is the developers that should be discussing the block size issue. Not every n00b to read some biased article on one side or another.
I agree with this to an extent. But Gavin and Hearn also skipped that discussion by releasing a BIP101-coded client. So there's that.
It's not like they just released it out of nowhere, the discussion has been going on for years. Gavin even posted the question whether or not that approach was a good idea or not back in spring.