But not after 1 year of scaling issues after a track record of running flawlessly for 9 years.
Well that's no true at all and BTC does not scale and they did not need to wait for the wheels
to start falling off it before rushing to fix it.
SegWit and LN implementation began long before blocks were even close to full.
Please expand on which problems you are referring too that occured before BTC started running at capacity.
it said "Near virtually free transactions" on the box so it should have had a maximum
amount of fees that would be charged and it is not decentralized when ten big miners
account for 90% of all transactions.
Setting a maximum price on a scarce resource (ie. blockspace) never ends well.
Kindly provide me with an alt coin example that is significantly more decentralized than BTC.