Also the "segregated witness" AKA. the "lets overcomplicate things because we are bankers"-non-solution is stupid.
All it does is destroy completely the beauty of Bitcoin and increases the block size limit to 4 mb ... so just raise the damn limit if that is what we want, don't do this crap.
I disagree. The "increase blocksize" part is actually not the most important. It just happens so that we hardly have time for a smooth hard fork (IMO it should take 6-12 months at least for a hard fork preparation, plus many performance issues need to be addressed beforehand), hence a time-buying soft fork is preferred.
More important are: malleability "fix", easier script upgrades, fraud proof enhancements.
But deploying SW with a hard fork might be better design-wise IMO.