Consider that much of the opposition to Core comes from the perception that Blockstream, which employs many of the core developers, is usurping it to be a high-fee, low-transaction network so that they can incentivize (and profit from) the use of their lighting network.<p>That&#x27;s why the opposition is called &quot;classic&quot; not &quot;bitcoin democracy&quot;.  Their position is they are getting back to what bitcoin should have been.<p>And bitcoin originally had larger than 2mb blocks.  The 1mb block limit was a short term solution to a problem that existed back then... that was never lifted.