95% of Bitcoin miners voted to increase the block size and it didn't happen, but you're right about the benefit of the ice age.
> Over 90 percent of miners (by hash power) are currently signaling support for SegWit2x.
At a certain point it was only blockstream and their reddit who really opposed bigger blocks, and it turns out that is sufficient to stifle Bitcoin progress.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/New_York_Agreement this was the era if you are looking to do research.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawi...
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0091.mediawi...