Beyond just the technical limitations, I don't want the BTC developers to be backed by banks, corporations, miners. The very reason BTC is so successful and central bank currencies will fail is because of how they are controlled. Core has shown they are ethically minded, and want BTC to succeed on its own merits, not a centralized promotional currency.
I was more neutral on 2x and didn't really understand that there may be serious technical reasons not to consider it. I thought, double block size, what's so bad about that? I'm not a developer, but I was chatting with Core dev Andrew Chow here and you can read some of our conversation here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1682183.msg22159270#msg22159270I've been on several of the other 2x threads on the Development and Technical Discussion Board. Check a few of them out.
Thanks I read Andrew Chow's issues which I have also seen discussed elsewhere.
I've spent time reading the issue discussions in the btc1 repository. The sense that I get from that is that issues like quadratic sighashing due to huge transactions have a responsible plan. Something about limiting to a single one mb or 100k transaction per block if I remember correctly These things are not being ignored. I understand that the process there is not large committee/ in all due time. But this does not mean proceeding without apparently reasonable planning either
I don't particularly want to lose core any more than you. But I don't won't to lose the miners and the exchanges right now as well. It's crazy sad that core and the miners+exchanges couldn't meet somewhere acceptable to both. But that is way above my pay grade. All I can do now is try to figure out what happens if the miners hang tough and it's a little scary but from what I can read I'm not pulling my bitcoins because I actually think the 2xhf will work and I don't actually hear core members categorically saying otherwise. More expressing lower level concerns that are seemingly well covered in the btc1 repository discussions. Obviously they strongly despise the process.