You are right, OP is an idiot. Most people commenting obviously did not read the article and are just here to complain about google not working for them either.
Just because you did not look at the settings does not mean there was no option. I get this from the elderly all the time, "Well how was I supposed to know to click that menu first?"
Having fun laughing all the way to the bank at idiots like you. Just as an example. I saw what Bitcoin was right way and invested a few thousand. That couple thousand has since netted me more than $200,000. I now have much more in Bitcoin than I ever put in and have withdrawn more than I put in.
Sorry, but you are naive. New things happen, nations change, "money" has not always been USD. I am having fun laughing at fools like you work your life away because you are too proud to try and understand a new paradigm.
In my early 30's I am financially secure for life, have a happy family and am working on a PhD, all because of what Bitcoin has allowed. And its still going up.
Good luck at your 9-5 and with your employee matched Roth IRA.
3. If they need to pay more to transact one particular crypto they will be less likely to do so, right? If one item is taxed but an identical one is not, you go with the cheaper one.
4 (your 5). Yes, also true, but this is their pièce de ré·sis·tance, the grand coop we have been building to, copyrighted code in Bitcoin, and they have shown us how to get there through their past actions this last 2 years.
5 (your 6). Yes, a hard fork is simple, once you get more than 50% of the power on the network, you make a transaction that ONLY the upgraded nodes can "see", done. Everyone that "sees the TX" in on the new network, everyone else is no, period.
Soft forking is essentially the same except it allows the devs to say that their version is Backward Compatible, and thus does not "force" anyone to switch. This (of course we should know by now) is not true, and anyone one a SewWit network trying to use the classic Bitcoin would be able to spend ANY transaction and it would be pointless. So, it is marketing bottom line.
1. SegWit contains copyrighted code from the privately funded company BlockStream.
2. Despite CTO Grerg Maxwell making a "Pledge" to only use the patents "defensively" there is nothing stopping the company from trying to monetize their patents on a portion of the Bitcoin code once the Code is implemented.
3. They would begin to sue large US based exchanges for infringement and demand a small percentage of transfer fees from any exchange using Bitcoin or any part of the "SegWit" code.
4. Companies would slow Bitcoin support and the Crypto community would be further segment, delaying adoption overall but making massive amounts of money for BlockStream.
5. Option 2 is that with their code in Bitcoin, they will be able to sell their services for a much higher price and it will give them a huge amount of leverage in the future.
6. The "Soft" forking and the "User Activated" forking mechanisms devised by BlockStream to get their code into Bitcoin is devious to say the least. They both set the stage for further manipulative changes to the code base, this part of the work is mostly done by one user, BS hired hand, Luke Jr.
7. And finally, as users are pushed off the Bitcoin network due to High Fees and Slow Transactions, BlockStream is supporting development of a "2nd layer" network (patented) from which Node owners will earn the transaction fees and not the Miners, the way it is now, this type of setup would be more like a shared Google Doc or SQL file rather than a blockchain as it is not blocked by computing power.
It is funny how much "support" a little money can buy.
My experiance is that a lot of "Core/SegWit supporters" don't really understand at first that Unlimited is trying to help Bitcoin continue what Satoish intended. They have been feed lies through the toxic reddit/r/bitcoin site that they assume if you are against "Core" you are attacking their beloved Bitcoin.
Just like Trump, Core has cornered the market on support from the under-educated and in both cases the tactic seems to be working.