Notwithstanding Segwit's other issues, it represents an end-run around simply increasing the blocksize.
Core, in the sole interest of their own agenda, is doing everything in its power to resist,delay, and fight this.
There is nothing wrong with preferring Segwit over a block size increase.
when there's a moore's law for bandwidth, that's when it'll become a 'law' that's worth paying attention to.
There already is. It is called Nielsen's Law. Read:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/