True I do see merits in hard fork but they lead to less nodes. Don't get me wrong bitcoin will need to do a HF to make the LN even cheaper and faster. However the concept of just HF justs seems sad. Oh we need to scale...let just inc the blocks and sacrifice some nodes . Second with the use of atomic swaps and other tech-bitcoin sidechain will become so easy to use. These sidechains will give the tech of altcoins the price and brand name of bitcoin.