This has just turned into a pissing contest. Nobody is open for some compromise and everyone wants their side to win with whatever they are fighting. In the past few days, I just take some breather to get out of this drama and re-calibrate my thoughts about what's happening. Hopefully, all concerned parties will come to a solution that will provide better future for BTC.
there are 3 sides:
"1 MB Forever" Immutability advocatesIncluding iamnotback, dinofelis and trainscarwreck. And that's all of them, the "Popular Front of Judea", lol. No one takes that view particularly seriously, but I sympathise with it to a degree.
"The Gamed Market decides" Infinity blocksize yesterday advocatesThe dangerous group. Large numbers of very repetitive forum members, very thin (10%) representation in the Bitcoin network itself, and that's questionable. Mining represents 40% support for this group, but that's going to change for a variety of reasons
"One node one vote" Technical solution advocatesYes, I'm biased towards this group. But I also don't like how big the blocks will be (4MB) either. Forum support is sporadic, but widespread within it's patchiness. Node support is highest (60%, or arguably higher if you count pre 13.1 Core nodes too). Mining support is lowest (30%), or maybe it's now about even with the 1MB-by-default miners who have abstained from signalling so far.
I fear a 4th side, like I mention on the previous page of this thread. All it would take is some kind of a major crisis to take place, and people could be panicked into choosing a cleverly contrived power grab with an appeal to authority of some kind, which Bitcoiners would not have sufficient time to assess properly.