You must not have been here very long. As long as I can remember there have been proposals to change Bitcoin. They come and then they go. None of these proposed changes (BU, Segwit, change PoW, etc.) will ever happen.
You must not have been here very long either.
Every change proposed and implemented to Bitcoin has been accepted up to Segwit, BIP is an abbrevation for
Bitcoin
Improvement
Program, and how many BIPs have been implemented in version 14 of Bitcoin, Burt? More than a dozen, right?
What you're really saying is "hard forks aren't the original design". Thanks for enlightening us (except we knew that already).
Who's going to continue the bugfix maintenance fork of Bitcoin Core version 14, you? If the Core Bitcoin devs propose a hard fork, and it gains sufficient support, you can kiss your immutability dynamics goodbye, son
changes you are proposing are going to happen. Sorry. On the up side, none of the changes you hate with a burning passion are going to happen either.
I could be wrong. All of this posturing/posting from all sides could have some effect. But I do not think so.