In my mind this is quite sad.
I think it is obvious that we need to upgrade, a smooth upgrade for our community. BTC would grow with smaller fees, it would get bigger recognition as payment not just as investment.
Yes, we need an upgrade to resolve transaction problems, but not necessarily to sacrifice one thing for another.
Just like they said;
Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin.
Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something
we believe is even more important: keeping the community together.
In time, to meet scale demand of hundreds or thousands transactions per second, we have to upgrade block size or change basics nodes such as 10 minutes to process a new block to added to the end of chain. But, as long as segwit be able to resolve current market transaction, no need to upgrade. But, still;
this is quite sad.