If a fork causes Bitcoin to crash hard, then frankly, it deserves to, since this can happen at any point in the future.
Two coins would be the best solution at this time. All current hodlers have coins on both chains. One chain can scale on chain, be actually used as a payment system, the other chain can play at being digital gold and pray that lightning network is somehow better than on chain payments.
At least with a fork current hodlers will own both the gold and the payment network. No fork means an altcoin will eat Bitcoin's payment network market share.
A fork should make everybody happy. Except Vinny, who needs to cry some more.
The blocksize increase is segwit, tell the miners to signal the fucking thing already.
After segwit is adopted, we can raise the blocksize in a safer way since segwit addresses certain problems.
The problem is, even if we upgrade it to 2MB, they will soon demand more.
BTW soon BU members will vote on a SegwitHF BUIP