But Bitcoin Core does not care. They will run this out till November, no issue. They see BTC as a 'store of value' not a currency. So they really don't care if the block size increases or not. Thus it is more of an issue to the miners.Segwit & LN are the Power Grab, if that fails then BTC Core fails.
But if the seg witness and lighting 'do work' even modestly as bitcoin core hopes...I can see this drag'ing out for another 4-5 years...with the end being you use BCH or LTC for
transactions and BTC as a store of value...both camps would then make enough on each horse to flog.....stalemate...it has already gone on far longer than I thought it could
so pretty much figure that this is the new normal