Irrelevant given that we have SW coming.
Did
you gather any opinions from miners asking them how they feel about creeping towards 1.75 MB equivalent sometime in 2017 with a soft fork that leaves all non-latest-Core-software nodes not validating transactions?
The 75% increase is immediate
once the code is implemented.
Third-party software a free to enjoy additional headroom by adapting their code.
you said somewhere else?
Also, you will be functionally knocking off quite a few nodes from actually being nodes. Only 2000 of the 5500 nodes are running the latest Core release.
That's what's in the Core roadmap.
BTW I have no idea what you're talking about in the second line. Do you understand how softforks work?
Oh, they'll still be there, but they won't be full validating nodes anymore. Clearer?
They will be able to fully validate every transaction they're involved in.
It's great to have a certain number of nodes on the network but the most important one is the one you run.
As far as peers on the network are concerned their security model is in no way diminished so nice attempt at FUD but what you're describing applies to any other softfork.