Or should I say, a "conspiracy theory?". Hahaha. Tinfoil hats on.

This topic should be fun to discuss, especially for some of us that came here to learn about Bitcoin during the small blocks, big blocks "scalability debate". I used to believe that Core should compromise, and hard fork to 2mb block sizes! What did I know, I was a newbie. Haha!
Opinions?
Your 1st thought of hard forking to 2mb blocks, was a better solution, than what was implemented.
Whoever convinced you that was incorrect did you a disservice.
Maybe they Gaslight you.