Thank you franky1: I understand but a 10% jump is at least something and then if all goes well the stage would be set to jump to something more, e.g. 1.2MB. Breaking the standoff seems more important to me at this time; the world is watching us.
since summer 2015 people have been asking for a buffer increase. the roadmap plans one for 2 years (summer 2017) after a year of grace(starting summer 2016, we hope).
that means when miners get to 1.1 they then have to beg for a year and then wait a grace period of a year before getting to 1.2.
its much easier to have 2mb buffer and let the miners themselves slowly increase 1.1 then 1.2 when they are ready. as a soft rule within their own code below the hard rule of consensus
after all they are not going to risk pushing too fast as their rewards would be at risk due to not only competition but also orphans, so even with a 2mb buffer we wont see miners pushing to 1.950 anytime soon, just like in 2013.. when they realised they had 50% of growth potential they could fill.. they didnt straight away