You think its a good idea to alienate 45 developers and replace them with 5? Even if half of those core devs start contributing towards classic eventually that will be a huge loss for our community ... all in the name of what? Bitterness? Hopefully both groups can move beyond this for the sake of everyone,.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIt7GLxxIpYOf course it is a bad idea. What people also seem to forget with such moves is that it is not about the miners.
what matters there is the economy: NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc
The value of the (almost) "unspendable" coins would quickly approach dust like levels. Do these guys proposing takeovers do not realize this? There are way too many players in the ecosystem and they risk them (if they stay on the wrong chain and whatnot). It would be perfect if we could work together, but perfection is non existent in this world.
Most of those merchants will simply follow Coinbase and Bitpay which both are in favor increasing this year with a hardfork. The chinese miners seem the most reasonable as they have such narrow margins and large investments that they want the talent of the 45 Core devs , but with the consensus of the community to come together.
We can only hope that 'most' means almost everyone (99%) stays on the right chain.