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,

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).