It is in our nature to want it all. The Chinese Bitcoin mining industry not only wants control in minting coins and what is included in a block they now are making moves to control development to get what they want. Bigger blocks.
To gain back leverage there must be the ability to do transactions off the chain.
lol wake up. your sleeping.
im guessing blockstream tucked you into bed and read you a fairy tale.
telling you to count the miner until you fall asleep instead of thinking of the boogey men under your blockstream bed.
care to try reading before bed. and not jump into bed with anyone that only wants to grab your wallet.
here is some tips for your research
1. if segwit activates. segwit nodes will BAN non segwit pools AUTOMATICALLY. thus causing a soft bilateral split.
2. even if segwit activates. all of them "fixes" wont be used by the malicious users that are causing the issues. malleation, quadratic spam etc will still occur.
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/10/28/segwit-costs/Miners could simply use software that does not recognise segwit rules (such as earlier versions of Bitcoin Core) to mine blocks on top of a chain that has activated segwit. This would be a hard-fork as far as segwit-aware software is concerned, and those blocks would consequently be ignored by Bitcoin users using segwit-aware validating nodes. If there are sufficiently many users using segwit nodes, such a hard-fork would be no more effective than introducing a new alt coin.
yep segwit nodes will bilateral split the network and prefer to talk to only thier own kind.. (native bitcoincoin nodes and pools are thrown aside)
Significant work has gone into ensuring that segwit enabled peers will form a strongly connected subgraph of the Bitcoin P2P network. This includes providing a dedicated service bit for witness enabled nodes and preferentially connecting to such nodes.
3. the transaction boost is not automatic. its dependant on how many use segwit keys. dont expect 100% utility
Let us set aside all the technical details and try to analyze the situation. Both sides argue technically with "this or that" and the majority of the people in the community are like me. We have no full idea what they are talking about. But it does not mean we are stupid and do not want to learn. We do.
All in all this all goes down to politics and the need for control. Power and influence is the name of the game here. The big blockers are no different from the blockstream boogeymen you keep talking about.