Stick a fork in it, indeed.
How can this be; I was told by Veritas that Bitcoin would die without 2 MB blocks and that DASH would be the next top cryptocurrency???

DASH and Klassique are both committed to Bitcoin's pre-0.12.1 code, Now & Forever.
Moving forward would require them to (at least implicitly) admit their own devs are inferior to Core's, which is unthinkable given the amount of cognitive dissonance such a paradigm shift would entail.
That means they will never benefit from current efforts to pour a foundation sufficiently sturdy to scale Blockchain
® upon.
No CLTV/CSV for DashHoles and Gavinista dead-enders.
No RBF for those superstitious cargo cultists.
No SEGWIT either, and thus no sidechains or payment channels. (Good luck with those trusted 3rd party MadoffNodes! I'm 100% sure tx malleability won't be an issue! /s)
No crypto chocolate candy from Elements Alpha. No Schnorr, so no tree signatues. Those idiots don't even understand the power they are voluntarily relinquishing and advantages they are voluntarily handing (on a silver platter) to Core and Monero.
EDIT: Thank Eris for the bug zapper forum, so we no longer have to put up with sophomoric FSA/SJW idiocy like this: