The change will be due not to any real "success" or benefits associated with the protocol itself, but by major players, such as Google, forcing it through. They

The change will be due not to any real "success" or benefits associated with the protocol itself, but by major players, such as Google, forcing it through. They didn't spend all that time and money steamrolling HTTP/2 not to coerce the rest of the web to use it. Even so, the work done by some of the HTTP/2 authors is to be widely commended!