Alex.BTC same here, I agree 100%.

I post rarely but Alexs post got me to also post my stance on this. I don't have any special attachment to any dev team, but I also preferred Core, even now I'm still running Core fullnode. I only want whats best for Bitcoin.

Only bitcoin stake holders and miners (even more so, since their investment is very iliquid they are in it for the long run so to me their interests are sincere, because we want the same thing) should have a say. If they fuck it they fuck themselves, so they will do anything to have Bitcoin succeed.
Any dev no matter how smart he says he is shouldn't get to impose anything - you write your code, miners will decide if its ok, I trust them much more than anyone else in the system because their interests are my interests as bitcoin stake holder.

Also with Core being so against HFing, when miners said they will be orphaning blocks of smaller chain, HFing is suddenly ok with Core to change POW. If HF is non avoidable which now seems so, at least choose the sane option.

Let go of your ego and do blocksize increase hardfork (2 or 4 MB) with SegWit and be done with this nonsense.