EVERYONE wants bigger blocks, except for these guys, and it's not because they are all knowing gods and know what's best for us. there are many poeple that understand the nitty gritty details who agree bigger blocks is safe.
From what I saw it seems like bigger block is at least canted by all users. It's the miners who don't want it?
A split at fork (having two blockchains) would be detrimental to the price. Miners know that and will try to avoid a full out war unless they're 99% confident that majority will follow. But portion of miners profit comes from the fees and with the halfing coming up that portion will get even more significant. So naturally they're bias for bigger blocks, as that means more profit from fees.
Coinbase and the like already have their business plan set up and want to show returns yesterday. So they want everything and right MEOW!!
Majority of users are also too short sighted. They want to be able to send $0.05 of internet magic money to each other and feel that BTC in the current implementation must be able to support it. Since it's coming to it's capacity the "logical" thing is to upgrade to new bigger capacity version like they do with their phones and computers.
Core devs are the geek engineers and are the ones that need to be 99.9% sure that updates don't introduce more attack vectors, make BTC more centralized etc... Mining pools are driven by market profits so it's not something that can easily be tested in the lab.
tl;dr
Engineers-we need more time to make sure it won't blow up.
Managers-we have delivery deadlines, this beta release should be good enough and we'll just patch it later.
Early users/consumers-WTF my iPhone 19c is out of memory, oh apple just released 20s with double the space time to buy more.
