Miners can't make more fees with larger blocks since the larger blocks won't let them extort higher fees by not confirming transactions with smaller blocks, though with larger blocks such extortion would be an open outrage (as if it is not already). This is not a rocket science, after all, and it is hard to fail to see that, so there is no reason to think they are actually in favor of bigger blocks. They may claim whatever they want (and you may choose to believe in that), but their true objective is to make current disputes even more heated, so that the present situation would drag on for longer (preferably, forever)
You're just digging yourself deeper into an illogical argument. Why on earth would the miners lie about wanting bigger blocks and secretly desire smaller blocks? We've already established that the too-small blocksize is limiting their profits, alienating the user base due to high fees and slow/failed confirmations, and running bitcoin into the ground at a key moment of explosive growth. Who has the most skin in the game here? Miners. They've spent millions on hardware and they intend to profit. Keeping the bitcoin network running and keeping a happy face on bitcoin's public persona is very important to them. They're not extorting anyone. They rejected Core's Segwit proposal and that's their right.
Now you're arguing that there is "no tomorrow" for miners (are you a UASF supporter)? LOL, if anything, there is "no tomorrow" for Core devs and their band of yabbering minions. The Bitcoin network can chug along happily for the next 100 years without a single line of new code getting written. It just can't scale to reach the number of people who want to use it. Therefore, people will dutifully move on to the next coin if nothing changes, as they are doing now
I'm curious if you understand how this piece (especially, the emphasized part) fundamentally contradicts the first section ("process more transactions" and "make more fees")
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Again, the network could theoretically continue to function at the current volume and price for 100 years without any changes. But it would halt the rapid volume and utility growth, which would move to another crypto. No contradiction. Now perhaps you could explain to me why the Core devs and their flawed corporate vision for bitcoin are so important? And why another dev team can't port the 0.14 changes to 0.12, raise the blocksize to 2MB, and a majority of nodes and miners compile and run that code?