"Many believe this is an attack by miners and personally I agree."

The UASF was the initial attack! I was very vocal against the UASF precisely because of the high probability for unintended consequences. None of the naive UASF promoters could have envisioned the scenarios we now have with Bitcoin Cash and the chain-hopping miners.

Instead of giving the mining community the measly 2mb block upgrade along with SegWit, the Core developers, particularly Luke Jr, decided it would be a smart move to threaten the miners with the UASF.

Look where we are now!!

Can anyone honesty argue that a 2mb block increase with Segwit on the main chain would have been worse than the shitshow we have now?