I disagree strongly. SegWit comes with a Block size increase and it is conveniently ignored. They are getting greedy and there are no other logical reason why they would block SegWit. The LN takes some of these fees to a second layer, that are accessible to everyone.
Some tx's still need to be done on the 1st layer, so it does not take away ALL the fees from that layer.
These miners have seen a opportunity to drag this whole process out and might even be behind these spam attacks to inflate the fees, so that they can make bigger profits. < unfortunately these people can hide behind pseudo-anonymity, so we might never know who they are>
Do not underestimate the power that normal users have, over the outcome of this whole experiment.
Segwit it not a block size increase, and so it being conveniently misunderstood. It introduces a new segwit block. It requires users to move to segwit keys to be of any benefit. People don't have funds on segwit keys yet. Real world effective increase in capacity is not known.
Show me how a real lightning network works in the real world. What if everybody doesn't trust each other and forces the frequent settling of open channels. Yep, we don't know how effective LN really will be in real world use.
Software developers are not adequately dealing with live network requirements in a timely fashion. And you can't blame miners if the developers proposed solution (which only provides pie in the sky future capacity increases) requires miners to hand over their wallets or they will be mugged.
Miners will sit back and take the fees while the deadlock period allows. If they are holding out for a faster approach to a live system with real world live demand/capacity issues, with a better future roadmap which doesn't take the incentive element of the white paper away, then who can blame them.