If you can't sum up your argument in a few sentences, you're pulling a JJG and trying to prove your point with walls of text rather than logical argument.

My argument is people are idiots and the few who aren't will be priced out of the market by high fees. Bitcoin scales just fine, you're just looking at it wrong. The highest value use cases will survive and the everything else will be done off chain or die, including your ideology. This is the free market I'm talking about.

I have no problem with Lighting and I think it and other side-chains will have their use cases.

I'm not a worshiper of plutocracy and the world isn't going to change just because you will it to. Things are just what they are.