Blockstream is engineering a problem by keeping the blocksize small in order to force their off-chain "solutions" onto everybody, all for their eventual profit.
It is a greedy and overall highly disgusting tactic on their part.
Bravo Gavin for standing up against this madness.
Yeah, let Coinbase governance us. The company that is actually making money as we speak. Blockstream isn't making any money and they already have agreed to a HF NEXT FUCKING YEAR! Let me repeat that: They aren't making any money right now and I can make a bet that they will not be making any money next year either! How would you agree to give the bitcoin governance towards a for-profit company with ZERO technical skills??? I don't get it!
Let coinbase govern us? Really? LOL. So Coinbase is the big boogieman now? Coinbase has no power over what wallet you decide to use, or even how you decide to use bitcoin. Not really anyway. Blockstream, on the other hand has achieved total centralization over the bitcoin development space, and it has been shown that some of their investors may very well have ulterior motives. Coupled with the constant ongoing DDoS attacks against Classic nodes (someone is spending hundreds of thousands on this) and censorship attempts on this forum and r/bitcoin, it has become pretty clear what is really going on - any viable alternative to Core is being actively oppressed. On the plus side, these kinds of dirty tactics have a very high chance to backfire.
As for the rest of your argument, it's pointless. We need 2 mb now, and to buy us time to make more decisions. Next year around "maybe July 2017" is just too long. They are stalling and stalling and stalling. They are clearly opposed to a blocksize increase at all costs and some of them (luke-jr) even want to REDUCE the blocksize. They will eventually profit off side-chains in some capacity or another, which is clearly their ultimate goal - and not only that but they are trying to set up conditions to force us all to use*their* off-chain solutions. This is extremely dishonest. But I guess when you have a CEO like Austin Hill who made 100k scamming people in 3 months, things like ethics and morals don't really matter much huh?
Running Classic does not mean giving "governance" to coinbase. That is honestly just a really stupid, Low-IQ scare tactic. It means listening to the sensible arguments of Gavin and a blocksize increase which is clearly sorely needed.