Quite frankly I would personally trust Roger Ver more than the bad boys from ETH with all the failures like the DAO and such.
Bitcoin hasn't failed, yet. But if people dont fix this fucking fee problem in the next 1 year or maximum 1.5 years, then it's toast.
I will have to consider abandoning BTC then, although I have been here for more than 3 years, it will be a very sad day for me when I will have to leave BTC.
So 1.5 years is the maximum you have until this issue doesnt become critical, because the fees are already increasing, and with this pace it will be like the banking fees.
Nobody will use BTC.
The DAO has been a blunder on epic scale, but that isn't even uncommon from BTC's history. Program code does fuckup and did on most of these crypto projects. But did that killed BTC or ETH? No, they do recover and the brave survive along with them.
"Bitcoin hasn't failed, yet" just ain't not true. Nor does anything alike some "deadline" exists. This is a new frontier, a rush of sorts, stop thinking along corporational Milestones or similar crap.