While I don't really have that much of an opinion now about the situation with Hearn, because I can see it both ways; I see a problem with your ideology that Bitcoin will just eventually "fix itself".

You can't leave a code that has obviously been giving devs, miners, and users trouble stagnant... you just can't.  You have to fix it; that's just like saying that, "Oh, the foundation in my house has cracks, has termites, etc; but that's ok, because I believe my house will fix itself eventually. I believe in my house as much as I do with engineering."