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RE: Why you should question Bitcoin Core and SegWit.
It is your right to be ignorant and ignore all the technical aspects of it. But failing to see the incompetence in the people that are supporting big blocks, the dirty tools that they are using to take control of Bitcoin. While Bitcoin Core is just creating code that users are asking for and leave it for community to decide if it is useful.
Users arent asking for anything, they have been made to believe that this is what they want. It's the same as when people are voting in our "democratic" system, it's all campaigns and manipulation. Im not saying Jihan and co. are saints I am questioning them too and event hough I might not like them, their proposal for upgrade is better IMO, but it's shocking no one is questioning Core and co. I am sorry but your opinion seems too biased and emotional for me to take it seriously. Give me facts. But either way, it is like you say, for community to decide on what it "wants". Only time will tell. It just doesnt seem fair to me and in alignment with anarcho-capitalism and free market which is the basis of these systems, that they don't even want let the Jihan and co. to have their go and let the market decide. If they are the ones who are right, why are they so afraid?
One thing I could say to Core and co. when it come to discussions about SegWit and other upgrades and their censorship is this:
It's been more than a year since majority of the users started asking for SegWit. Clearly you haven't been a user for long enough to know it. Big names like Roger Ver and Jihan Wu who own big Bitcoin businesses have been pushing big blocks for years now. And they have no support from the users, that is why we still don't have bigger blocks. So clearly Bitcoin Cash is a solution for everyone. Users get the SegWit that they wanted and those who don't know what Bitcoin stands for, can go to Bitcoin Cash and enjoy big blocks.
a) from what I've observed, people are heavily manipulated and don't seem to have their own mind and there is too much censorship and lack of transparency in SegWit and b) Bitcoin Cash is trying to follow the original whitepaper idea while the other side is not. What is wrong with that? SegWit folk are turning Bitcoin into something it is not supposed to be.
People who are "heavily manipulated" don't make any decisions in Bitcoin. Decisions on what software to run are made only by miners and those who run full nodes. And those are the people who know more about Bitcoin than an average person. Bitcoin has been around for a while and reputations have already been made. In time you will get the hang of it who are the sleazy bastards looking for personal gain even in unethical ways.
Remember your last sentence in a few years. What you don't understand, that trying to decentralize mining is a stupid and pointless effort and in order to try to achieve this Core and co. are selling the BTC as we know it to those we despise. There is nothing we can do to change the fact, that Chinese already "own" Bitcoin. But they have no reason to do anything ridiculous with it, because they already have everything they want, as it might not be the ideal scenario, it is our reality. Better to have Chinese-centralized mining of Bitcoin than have Core and co. decentralized mining Bitcoin that they will sell out to centralized corporations in order to get money and power they are lacking. SegWit is not going to solve anything, probably a notable group of people are going to boycott the 2x part and that's when they will have dug their own graves. Many different people technically involved/interested question if it's even a safe upgrade. Either way -we need bigger blocks, there is no other way (and if there is - it's neither SegWit nor any currently know scaling solution) . How do you suppose things will work when certain groups reject the 2x part?
That's the thing, we don't need bigger blocks, at least not in a near future. So I don't see why wouldn't certain groups reject 2x. And Chinese don't "own" Bitcoin, no one does! Fools who think they can control Bitcoin will only get disappointed.