The sad and exasperating thing is that this situation can be rectified easily enough. By those in control of the core development. But those with the power to do something are caught up in analysis-paralysis. Mumbling about "consensus" and repeating "Lightning network will solve everything".
It might. But what of NOW??
They should just increase the block size in my opinion, even if up to just 2mb, surely it wouldn't really do that much damage!?