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That's the "glass is very half-full" way of putting it :)

They could've easily gone both ways: block size increase to 2mb, segwit and lightning network. Hell, Litecoin is well on its way to becoming the de-facto transfer currency between exchanges because it iterates so much quicker (and those 2.5 minute blocktimes sure help).




They might still increase blocksize at a later date. Some other people decided it was a good idea to try force their hand with segwit2x and it failed.




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