And yet the people who maintained the protocol and scaled transaction throughput while it grew to tens of billions of dollars in value largely dispute it. If SegWit could activate without a hostile takeover, it would be much easier to demonstrate why there are no scaling issues.

A lot of ignorant people want to throw the baby out with the bath water though, so ultimately we're probably going to have two chains, one that does it the way the talent in the community says it should be done, and another that shifts responsibility around to a few scaled entities. My money is not on the latter.