what these btc trolls want is for users to pay high fees and wait a very long time....or use the segshit....
No this is the first step in a long line of optimisations to make the most use of available space the blocks will be increased afterwards bitcoin is not ready for prime time use most people are dumb and if you allow everyone to just dive in straight way then there will be a lot of lost finds with no way to recover and a total loss of confidence let us tech folks who know what to do make things better and more user friendly.
Also not allowing mass adoption yet is better for us as we can accumulate more that will be worth more than if everyone jumped in and pushed the value up now you would be so much more financially worse of
With most tech stuff the tech evolves for the people the people don't usually evolve for the tech