So much for decentralization
I don't see a benefit in going from 5 people to 2 (as "centralization" was often used as a argument). However, this is not the topic here.
if you listen to Gavin, he is far from alarmist. If you actually look at the fact that the blocksize is roughly doubling annually and consider the fact that there are network spikes, and could be unforeseen factors that could accelerate this further, and factor in the considerable time required for consensus change and rollout, you will also conclude that time is not in abundance.
We may be short on time, however nobody can exactly define how much time we have. You can not just take the pattern from the past and expect it to continue forever. We might have a 0.5MB average next year, or we might have 5MB average (assuming the limit is raised to some degree). One can't really know.
Actually what they have planned is very good. The first workshop will contain a lot of ideas, and a final resolution will
probably be found in the second one. There will be enough time to implement it before the halving, even though the second one is in December.
