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.
But why should we be listening to YOUR opinion on who we should trust when you think we shouldn't listen to the people that are actually learning about the technical details of the system "no matter how smart" they are?
Why should be believe its nonsense because YOU say so but the actual people with technical knowledge, expertise, and experience don't agree with you?
And do you claim your argument is scientifically founded, because if you do, then I urge you to bring forth the supporting literature.
You don't need any literature to understand that if someone has 100s of millions invested he thinks real hard about what he will do.