"Miner Mafia"? please.
Bitcoin was always a miner vote system, if you read and understand
Satoshi's whitepaper, but somehow the miners
(70% of them) not signaling for Core's roadmap
is a now a mafia. right...
I agree with you. But do you not think it is possible for the miners to collude and conspire behind the scenes to get what they want? Tin foil hat on. But I believe there is an argument that the developers of BU are supported and controlled by the Chinese miners.
Collude and conspire how exactly? Sure its possible, but you'd have to be more specific in the scenario you think they will do. I think dynamic blocks (flexcap, etc) are even better than emergent consensus, as it would take it out of human hands completely.
Bitmain would support Segwit WITH a HF block increase,
but Core will not compromise. They would rather
not have segwit than increase the blocksize.
They are the obstructionists.
A block size increase is inevitable in my opinion. Why not be patient and support Segwit now and get a block size increase later?
I think segwit is far from perfect, although it does have some unique benefits such as UTXO growth reduction.
I think other proposals are better.
But to answer your question as to why I don't support Segwit now and 'get' an increase later, well, I think
it would be more accurate to say 'hope to get'.
It comes down to not trusting the core development team. They are openly saying 'blocks aren't full',
and then out of the other side of their mouth saying 'full blocks are good, high fees are good'. They've
done their best to stall for years, spun up a false narrative about hard forks, broke the hong kong agreement,
censored dissent, and formed a corporation to profit from off-chain solutions.
They've completely, utterly lost my trust, and I do not believe for a second that we would get a satisfactory increase later,
and I believe this is why the miners will not follow their leadership either.