Nice article. Neutral truth is that cryptocurrency rely on its market. What bitcoin maximalism sings is that there are some people living in a bubble, scaling issue really prevents bitcoin to be used for microtransactions.

Yet, for example Dash is cryptocurrency that is about to have 2mb blocklimit and already has a strong network of masternodes that makes network propagation way faster.

But Dash is not ready yet so your own solution makes total sense.