[RichardHeart]

If softforks are the dangerous way, what method would you suggest to improve the bitcoin network?

How much less voting should the "economic majority" get on how the network votes on process changes if they don't participate in the processes themselves? Perhaps developers with understanding matter more than any "economic majority" as this is truly cutting edge and screw up once and burn matters of network consensus and in large part computer science.

Your statement that we need a scaling fix now, more than other fixes could be biased. Millions of dollars have been lost to malleability, I'm not sure how many millions have been lost to scalability or potentially to the the quadratic hashing or the potential DOS attack vector larger script sizes allows creating transactions that take exponentially longer to confirm.

Just thinking scalability is the biggest problem doesn't make it so. It might be, but I'd like to see some numbers on it.