The Lies and Censorship crew have won.
Meanwhile, Lightning Network is at-least "18 months" away from being deployed.
Are you guys ready for $100+ fees?
This is the "settlement layer" you wanted. Forget Satoshi's Bitcoin, now BTC is a store of value only coin. Who cares about commerce or competing with banks or actually trying to change the world, right?
Why forever? Who is saying that?
Hopefully now a permanent solution can be developed and tested over the next year or two to allow for growth in the block size over time. I've always thought the block size should adjust with the difficulty. Maybe a consensus will develop for such a change.