...nice technical stuff....
[I'm also somewhat surprised that you were unaware of this; one of the patches "classic" was talking about patching out was the one restoring the batching... due to a transaction deanonymization service (or troll) claiming it interfered with their operations.]
Nice technical post, but why the drama at the end?
I'd say that ending of drama will come from solving the underlying disagreements, not by just one side keeping quiet.
Efficiency improvements like blocksonly can help more of the bitcoin economy adopt full nodes. It can help stop any move by miners that attempt to force the real economy to follow a previously-invalid blockchain. The only reason Bitcoin Classic is even a danger is because mining is relatively centralized and much of the bitcoin economy uses SPV-security wallets that completely trusts the miners and would simply go along with almost any hardfork.
With this in mind, you can see it's not possible to separate the technical discussion from the political fight over how bitcoin should scale.
Aside: I just went to search for that PR to bitcoin classic but couldn't find it. Has it been deleted?