Bitcoin is not a business-coin. Bitcoin is an idea-coin. It was never about the price, the price is just a side-effect. For many early adopters and developers, Bitcoin is about changing the world. Not in a marketing bullshit-world, but in a real way. We really believe that the world would be a better place if we've put a stop to government and banks monopoly on controlling the money. You may disagree, and it's fine. We believe in it, and we want to have the most secure, uncensorable and attack-resistant value transferring network. If it takes $30 to pay to transfer on such network, so be it. Increasing the block size compromises on that property, so we are not willing to do it, even though it's painful for everyone. We will wait. We have credit cards, we PayPal, and we can use altcoins before we get there. The price will rise and fall, users will come and go. We held at $1, we held at $10, we held at $20k, and we will hold at $10 again if it's required. We will get our layer 2 solution and get both our uncensorable, government-resistant network and instant cheap micropayments. That's why most of us dumped BCH coins without thinking twice.
What most other coins are (not all!) is a business-coin. They are mostly pointless. Ethereum could be really a centralized smart-contracts platform run by Google or Amazon, and noone would care much. Actually, I believe that's how ETH is going to end. I believe Amazon engineers are working on it already. Because who cares about centralization or censorship resistance, if the main use case is breading virtual cats? No government will be interested in censoring that.
What BCash is, is a scam coin. It's all about ASICBOOST and Roger Ver's hurt pride. He would like to be a pope of Bitcoin, but noone really cares about him. Except for a talent for scamming people for his own gain, he is noone.
This very post has no new ideas, has no listed author, and is posted by a two hour old user account. It's not even about discussing what's best for Bitcoin any more.
Could you pleace elaborate on that?
I just wonder why the core devs were against increasing the blocksize. Yes, it would not have been a solution for the next 20 years, but at least it would have left the fees at a place where BTC was still suitable for the everyday use until other solutions could be established.