Just a reminder. SegWit is a
transaction limit proposal, and if activated it will be much harder to increase transaction capacity on chain knowing that post SegWit increases comes with 4X the block weight.
here are the economic policies being pushed by incumbent developers - they unanimously support limiting bitcoin transaction:
There is a consistent fee backlog, which is the required criteria for stability.
we - as a community - should indeed let a fee market develop, and rather sooner than later
Slow confirmation, high fees will be the norm in any safe outcome.
Reasonable block sizes currently range from ~550k to 1 MB"
higher fees may be just what is needed
A mounting fee pressure, resulting in a true fee market where transactions compete to get into blocks, results in urgency to develop decentralized off-chain solutions.