Short answer: the network has reached capacity and must be increased in one form or another.
I think it won't happen. Immutability and consensus can only be reached over status quo.
As I said elsewhere, the valuable commodity will not be the coins any more, but the room on the chain.
All that the BTU coin folks require is 51%. After all, they are entirely convinced that having 51% hash rate equals to being Bitcoin, which is on a level of absurdity not seen in a long time. Do you think that it is not possible for them to reach this number?
Miners pay millions only for energy already (how much is your investment?) and miners (sadly...) might be more centralized as the rest of our community - they will come up with enough % of hash power and nodes if needed ( costs less than 100$) if time is ready.
We can dispute forever and try to split our community - it does not help, no it rather harms. Sit back and watch or spend some millions.