[haolez]

There were some episodes in the latest months of very intense traffic (either an “attack” or someone stress testing) and Bitcoin Cash has endured it just fine.

Let’s see how it works out when adoption grows. If it doesn’t scale, then the timing for off-chain scaling will be more appropriate.

[gruez]

I don't think anyone seriously thought that 8MB blocks would crash the network. The actual concern was in the increased cost of running a full node.