Mining is a business.They will push anything what will bring them more money and not what is better for retailers.Why so aggressive?
What I mean is that it is very, very unlikely that the majority of bitcoin miners will agree to an increase of the cap as their current coins will devaluate. Hence, they will keep mining on the original blockchain. Hence only a hard fork is possible. You then have BTC and BTH.
Miners do many shady things to profit like increasing transaction costs artificially and many other bad staff.
You think they would have a problem mining a softfork which would bring them more money ?
Keep dreaming.Node providers are greedy as hell.Talking a lot s**t about protecting the code ,community etc but in reality all they care is profit.
Have a look at our old major programer Daniel Larimer who went to EOS.Sold basicly our code to EOS for a money grab to the EOS buyers where even our crypto projects name was still in his code.There is no honesty in crypto our chief control programer went to algorand .He was somewhat half honest but they what cared most was their own pockets as he made $400k a year