I could be wrong (and am wrong often) but the way I understand the SegWit & 2x so called "upgrades" is - a majority of transactions are to be taken off the blockchain (segregated) via a "trusted" third party "The Lightning network" (witness) to increase speed and blocksize. Now this alone makes the whole concept as you stated...

no longer conforms to the Satoshi Whitepaper.

IMHO (and we all know what opinions are worth) SegWit & 2x at its core (pun intended) will destroy the decentralization of Bitcoin. Nowhere in the Satoshi white paper does it say that removing transactions OFF the main chain is ok as long as... Maybe I missed that paragraph - but I don't think so.

The politics aside - my purpose in this comment was more to state that Bitcoin has reached a "critical mass" of support throughout the world, and nothing can stop it now - regardless of however many forks there are. Yes there are some serious problems and you might even see people walk away because of it. But one thing i'm relatively sure of is Bitcoin will survive - and prosper...