The Core devs signed an agreement with these miners a year ago in Hong Kong, and the agreement was broken. Here are the consequences.
Clearly, politics won't be ignored- or Segwit would be on track for activation.
Clearly, politics won't be ignored- or Segwit would be on track for activation.
Segwit never getting activated may even be a good thing. It will show everyone that Bitcoin has crystalized and can never be changed via petty human emotion. This was always Bitcoin's true selling point and we may be about to demonstrate it.
So yes, politics can and will be ignored.
But that's not politics being ignored- this is still a group of humans who couldn't come to an agreement after much politicking. That's politics being exhausted.
I do share your optimism that we have a system that can survive gridlock. It just won't fulfill much of its early promise.