Lightning is not the solution. It was a delaying tactic from the part of the miners to show that they are doing something to address the scalability issue.
Not a Lightning fanboy here, but have been quite open to it more and more (recognising of course the issues raised simply be taking things off chain) and seeing it actually being used well enough in practice just makes me more warm towards the idea but...
what makes you think this was a tactic from the miners? What could they possibly gain from encouraging an off-chain solution that ghosts their on-chain fees away?