Any evidence/links on full blocks?
Though, your probably right, as Core fees market drives away adoption/users.
I'm calm, and agree in a years time this debacle will be laughed at. This is how bitcoin works, change will be driven by sudden realisation. Shit needs to happen first, talking of which,
"SegWit is coming in November and the LN will follow after that" The party line.
Like it is written in stone. We've heard it all before. Any idea what year?
It was reasonable to doubt the projected release dates earlier this year when the error bars were large, but now it's just being bloody minded.
It's possible segwit doesn't lock in until next year (again depending on bloody mindedness on the part of some hash power), but it will almost certainly be released before then. After all, it's rc2, looking good, tested for a year, etc...
Lightning is another issue. That's still in development, so the error bars are huge. Still, it's running already. Assuming no brick walls are hit, there's no reason to think it won't be ready when we need it.