This is part of the reason I am very anti-Core dev team at the moment, though.  They are on record saying these kinds of forks are harmful.  I got involved in Bitcoin because it is open-source, and because the idea was that the majority finally have some power over the minority (i.e. us regular folks over banks).  Bitcoin NEEDS to be forkable when the community decides they don't like where something is going.

Adam Back has insinuated through his tweets that the majority support a 2MB increase.

Also, RBF was certainly not consensus... maybe consensus of the devs but... most people's comments I read are quite against it.