Wow, thank you for the sincerely insightful look at Segwit!

As a developer who has just recently began making in-roads to the blockchain space I honestly couldn't wrap my head around why there was so much support for Segwit - given how overtly complex it is and how there's very little chance it'll really improve Bitcoin's scaling issues.

Furthermore, as you mentioned, there seems to have been a weird aversion to forking instilled in the Bitcoin community - which doesn't make sense considering forking is a fundamental aspect of any open-source project.

My question to you would be, do you see the Bitcoin Cash hard fork as a positive sign of the Bitcoin protocol's resilience - or a dilution of its already waning influence?