If you look below the surface at what is going on it becomes pretty clear.  Essentially one well funded Bitcoin company, Blockstream, has managed to hire a majority of the current top Bitcoin Core contributors.  They also control discussion on a handful of the historically important forums for discussing Bitcoin and censor any comments critical of Core or supporting a blocksize increase.  Blockstream has a business plan that revolves around providing private blockchain services.  For whatever reason they feel like in order to be successful they need to limit Bitcoin&#x27;s block size so that it is very expensive and inconvenient to use Bitcoin.  They have 55 million in funding and probably feel like they have a lot at stake.  Hence they are playing very dirty to try and kill Bitcoin&#x27;s first mover advantage so they can essentially privatize Bitcoin under their corporate banner.<p>It would be like if AOL tried to kill the Internet by limiting packet size and line speed and then introduced AOL w&#x2F;o the same limits.