Its a nice article on the current state of affairs. Freedom is inherently messy and that won't be different for Bitcoin. If no suitable solution can be found for the scaling issue, the market will force a solution somehow at some point in time. It could either be:

• a change to the Bitcoin protocol
• another cryptocurrency taking over the lead role (probably a PoS system like Peercoin)
• something we have not thought of yet

Either way, these bumps in the road can be expected. Diversifying investments is key here.