Whoever decided on each block being a whole snail-like 10 minutes together with the 1MB limit for Bitcoin Core transactions was stupid. If it's up to a say 90MB backlog now and we know that something like 0.000001% of the financial world uses it, imagine if 1% of the financial world use it, or even more. We would be paying $10,000+ per transaction. How does that make Bitcoin Core even a usable currency for world decentralized commerce, which Satoshi himself envisioned in his white paper.
Hence why I think BTC is going down and other established cryptocurrencies are going to rise. If you establish a cryptocurrency aimed for the whole world to use, you want a block to be 1 micro second tops with an unlimited scalability.