bitcoin 0.1.0 was deemed "production-ready" by satoshi.
and he subscribed to the same damn make blocks bigger and bigger scaling vision.
does that make him an idiot?
XT failed because poeple didnt like the idea that nodes on the network would eventually cost 1000's of dollars yearly to run should the network grow to visa like TX/sec, not because it was technically flawed. they see increased cost to nodes as having a centralizing effect. they are WRONG, but thats just my opinion... and few subscribe to it.
you small blockers like to pretend everything would come to a grinding halt if blocks were huge, ( some of you would say 2MB is "technically impossible") but thats not true, it just makes running a node more expensive
There is no such thing as "big blockers" and "small blockers" - there is merely the fact that bitcoin is in its current position because proposals such as Seg wit have been overwhelmingly accepted as the generally correct way forward at this point in time in bitcoin's development while XT/Classic have failed to muster sufficient support because they were unable to persuade in terms of evidence and/or logic.
Accordingly, it seems like it would be more productive to focus on developing, building and brainstorming regarding bitcoin's current projected path, rather than seeming to cry over spilt milk (for Lauda's cat)... yeah, sure, increasing the blocksize limit is most likely not out of the picture, but it is not currently something that is as easy as folks like you and some of the other XT/Classic proponents seem to continue to distractingly rally around.. Quite likely it is not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be that the current forward direction does not include something that you and some other minority whiners keep apparently butt-hurt screaming about.