I don't have a leg in this debate. I just found it funny that you're both accusing each other of the same thing, and neither of you provided adequate sourcing so it's impossible for a layman/concerned bystander such as me to figure out who to believe.
Whilst I would usually agree with you, your comments about being a conspiracy theorist are IMO entirely wrong, look at the history of the account, the lifespan of it, and the threads it posts on. I agree that ad hominem is incorrect and pretty much always a bad way to argue, but you need to have some idea of context and the active measures that have recently been taken in this scaling "debate", there is straight up disinformation being circulated.
As far as I'm concerned, I did give facts, the segwit facts are correct. The loss of business is fact. The comment about chain rewards decreasing is fact.
Even if it is a sock puppet (and isn't your account pretty new?), humans are reading here, so my advice is to take the high ground if you want to convince people.
Can you explain why chain rewards decreasing are problematic.
Asic hardware is already bought, so mining still makes sense even if the rewards drop as the cost is sunk.
And in response to his fallacious proclamations that Blockstream controls core.
git shortlog -sn
4982 Wladimir J. van der Laan = Non-Blockstream
1446 Pieter Wuille = Blockstream
1101 Gavin Andresen = Non-Blockstream
639 Philip Kaufmann - Unsure
633 MarcoFalke - Non-Blockstream
559 Matt Corallo - Non-Blockstream
551 Cory Fields - Unsure
533 Jeff Garzik - Non-Blockstream
520 Jonas Schnelli - Non-Blockstream
330 Luke Dashjr - Blockstream
261 Gregory Maxwell - Blockstream
245 s_nakamoto - lol
208 Alex Morcos - Non-Blockstream
208 John Newbery - Non-Blockstream
197 Suhas Daftuar
131 practicalswift
113 Russell Yanofsky
113 fanquake
102 Peter Todd
95 Pavel Janík
86 Jorge Timón
74 Michael Ford
74 jtimon
70 Cozz Lovan
50 Patrick Strateman
40 Andrew Chow
36 João Barbosa
35 R E Broadley
34 Giel van Schijndel
32 BtcDrak
32 Eric Lombrozo
31 Daniel Kraft
30 Jeremy Rubin
29 Karl-Johan Alm
29 Nils Schneider
28 Gregory Sanders
27 Chris Moore
26 Satoshi Nakamoto
26 sirius-m
23 Johnson Lau
23 MeshCollider
23 instagibbs
21 Micha
20 dexX7
19 Warren Togami
19 gavinandresen
19 tcatm
Sorry if I didn't do them all, you're getting the idea, as you go further down the list the impact of the organisation backing them inevitably goes down.