What's happening in a nutshell is that the kleptocrats, those weary giants of flesh and steel, are beginning to realize that we've innovated around them, and they're fighting back the way they have fought for millennia: with deception, subversion, and fear. I've suspected segwit as being a trojan for a long time, but it wasn't until a few days ago I really looked into it and found out that I was right.