It's like walking up to some aircraft engineers and demanding that the next design be exactly the same but have a wingspan twice as long, when really your goal was to double the number of pounds of cargo it could carry.
No. It's like walking up to an aircraft engineer and telling him you need a plane that carries more people, and him telling you that planes can't scale. But the railroad company he works for can, and will handle all the passengers, using your airplanes to deliver train tickets and reservations. Of course, it doesn't need to be
your airplane, and no airplanes are needed, truth be told.
I have no info gmaxwell works on altcoins as well, but some other smallblockers defending 1 MB onchain blocksizes obviously exploiting the status quo and the need for wide consensus - it is the obvious Bitcoin weakness, the funny part is the attack dont come from governments, but from those who want to profit from higher altcoin usage. The point is consensus model can be easily exploited, as it doesnt takes much to block further improvenments.