Just ask the people who invested their money in bitcoins last year and who have made huge profits by now only by holding it so even if you invest your money in bitcoins now you can expect the same result after next couple of years and you will not regret for investing money in bitcoins.
In my opinion we should wait until the Segwit issue is over. This is good that the split is out of the context now which is no doubt a good sign for the investors but the Segwit is still pending and the price of bitcoin will be decided after when the Segwit will happen. I am currently changing my Bitcoin to the local currency because I don’t know what results are we going to face in future regarding bitcoin price.
Agreed, Segwit could cause huge issues going forward.
Personally, if Segwit goes through I think we see a huge crash happen(if it becomes the dominant coin). We don't need BTC for micropayments, there are just to many alts to choose from that make more sense for that. BTC should stay the course of basically where it is at but just make bigger blocks.
Fees will go down with larger blocks = more transactions.
The only downside is that it costs more for hobbyists to run a node or something, if that is the only down side it isn't much of one.