Would you be willing to reconsider your involvement with the scaling conference? Sometimes you have to take the high ground, I think you should reconsider and reengage. Bitcoin is more important than all of us.
Many of the interesting aspects of bitcoin come out when the "loop is closed". Do you think it is important for companies such as Circle to go after enterprise clients and help with this?
Assuming Core does not move on the block size issue at all, what happens then? Will industry get together and go around them on the issue? Do you believe it is important enough that such a move would be warranted?