The current scaling problems would have been a non-issue, if we had little or no competition, but things have changed and a lot of rich people and organizations and even Banks are dumping a lot of money into the marketing of their Alt coins now. < Ripple & Ethereum & Bitcoin Cash, to name a few >
The delay in the implementation of SegWit & Lightning Network by merchants are stalling Bitcoin adoption & chasing first time users away.
Bitcoin supporters should aggressively push for SegWit & Lightning Network implementation to stop a situation where we lose too much market share to these competitors.