I don't hold the bitcoin core team and /r/bitcoin reddit in high-regard. Tone Vays is part of that group. They are the reason bitcoin failed to scale for 2 years. Roger Ver is who I listen to about bitcoin. That said, this Segwit2x agreement did not come out of bitcoin core team, nor the ideas of people like Tone Vays.

Core team opposed any blocksize increase for years now. Their goal has been high fees, to incentive the market to use lightning network and blockstream solutions. As an investor, I think any sort of off-chain scaling will not be favored by the market but rather the market will disincentive that method long-term.