To those saying I haven't been paying attention to "on-chain scaling" are you talking about segwit? That isn't scaling that is trying to remove information from the blocks. Last I checked transaction fees were still $2.50 and currently bitcoin volume is very low. Dozens of blockchains have proven you can 10x + bitcoin's blocksize and have no issues whatsoever.
To me the only question is, how much pain is the community willing to tolerate before they finally scale? Right now we have already lost 63% of the marketshare of crypto and counting. Maybe when bitcoin falls to #2 people will reconsider things.
So after taking the pains to explain things to you, you don't respond to the discussions brought up by your topic headline, and instead pick on an argument that isn't even one?
Bitcoin has moved on from scaling as a priority to other development focus. Even its most vocal critics in that time have accepted that. Development is now on privacy.
Last you checked? What are you checking? I'm still paying 1 sat/byte... And you're talking about low volume but asking for scaling? 100s of blockchains can do 1000x bitcoin's blocksize but they don't prove anything except that the utility (again something I talked about that you ignored) there is negligible.
What is the point of an ultra big block or super fast tps that far exceeds the demand? When was the last time you checked for a full big block on one of these big block chains?
And the thing about scalability you guys seem to not get is that altcoins would LOVE to have a scalability problem. Scalability is a headache any developer would love to have. Currently, Bitcoin and Ethereum are the ones supposedly having scalability issues (I don't think they do, but apparently threads like these insist). That's because people actually use them.
How much pain? Well, the companies whining about scalability in 2016/17 but still on legacy wallets apparently still can tolerate a lot of pain. People moving to faux Bitcoin chains for larger blocks instead of adopting actual upgrades apparently can tolerate a lot of pain.