i'd much rather see more of those "groups" you keep mentioning. lets open up development. there is a mechanism in place to solve all the issues - miners will form a consensus. if anything the whole debate should illustrate that a core group in charge of development is slowing bitcoin down.
Basically then you are advocating that we should have many blockchains not one.
I fail to see this as anything different to supporting the various alts that we have already - so why don't the miners just do that?
Personally I think this would be fine and it would solve the tx/sec issue if we simply divided everything into a thousand different chains.
Maybe all we need is a universal wallet and we've nailed it.
