The question isn't whether or not Blockstream's work on their technology is good or bad, or the quality of their whitepapers. The issue is that if the Bitcoin block size is increased then there might not be as much demand for solutions like Blockstream is promoting and instead of allowing the market to take its course Blockstream has politicized the core dev team in order to ensure future demand for their technology by keeping Bitcoins block size small. Your comment doesn't address that at all.
It would be like if Microsoft employed 90% of the Linux kernel devs and wouldn't let any changes into the kernel that allowed systems with over 8 gigs of memory or something like that.