both sides are in many ways right in their criticisms about the other side, they are just fundamentally conflicting visions of the long term nature of the network.

In my opinion the problem here is the network was built so that it operated only by people acting on incentives and those incentives being aligned with the good of the network, and it turned out that miners acting in their own interest wasn't actually good for scaling past a certain size and operating on certain types of transactions.