For one thing, a seeming majority of users wanted bigger blocks a long time ago
No they haven't.
Users were given the opportunity to support the XT and Classic blocksize forks. And users didn't want that, both were rejected by users.
Creating an echo chamber of sock puppets is not a real majority, jonald
Miners are not trying to destroy Bitcoin, they are trying to scale it.
My opinion.
Your opinion is wrong, and so is that of the bigger blocks miners.
If transaction rate increases 1:1 with blocksize increases, that's not scaling by definition. You cannot refute this, because it's an unimpeachable fact
isn't that true with any method you want to implement for scaling? otherwise how do you "scale" by your definition