Actually the scaling issue is, in my opinion, a case of ignoring the fact that networks get better and storage gets larger.

While many like to say that increasing the block size or decreasing the time between blocks isn't a long term solution, it is indeed obvious that with increased world bandwidth and increased average storage, block size increases and time reductions can be handled incrementally.

The most bizarre step in the long, slow, drawn out attempts to scale bitcoin is segwit.
Segwit itself increased the limit on the size of a block by roughly 4 times, which, oddly enough, is exactly that ... a block size increase ...