I want to add that I believe at some point we also need to address the scaling issue through a hard fork to fix a lot of things in the protocol (eg. merging Legacy and SegWit, fix bugs like sigopcount) and also increase the cap itself.
That is unlikely to happen. It's going to break tons of software.
I agree but I also think in the future we'll get to the point that benefits of a hard fork could outweigh its issues and that can be the incentive to get it done.