It's about making it happening so BTC doesn't continue to stagnate and give up marketshare to alts.
BTC is not stagnating, it's growing linearly, at a slow but steady pace. Better than a bubble.
It didnt gave up % to ETH, the money that flow into ETH came out of fiat, not BTC.
So all cryptocoins grow in parallel and not necessarly compete with eachother, for now.
It should have already been done two years ago! If you can't even take basic action on this issue - then nothing gets done! The endless stalling on behalf of Core is obviously counterproductive.
Even if that's true. Now it's too late, we have 7 billion $, and those should not be risked on foolish and irrational decisions.