That's it? Seriously?
I'm not against moderately larger blocks (though I am more concerned than some about blockchain bloat); I wish core had pushed out a blocksize increase some time ago and then kept working on segwit and LN, etc., without skipping a beat. But you are not going to reach anything like mass adoption or meet the needs of bitcoin-friendly merchants with larger blocks in an era in which Moore's Law has long since ended.
I'm not against layered solutions, off-chain, etc... as long as the market can decide for itself, not have it forced down our throats.
Core could have increased the blocksize long ago and chose not to. imo, they thought they could control and dictate their roadmap.
in any event, here we are.