Moreover, transactions between Segwit-compatible wallets is pretty fast and cheap.
I’m kind of tired to hear people complain about the fees while all they have to do is use a different wallet that supports Segwit.
Edit: Ah, the downvotes. I was expecting them.
This sums it up pretty well.
And even if it reduced people's needs to one bitcoin transaction per month (say, to deposit their paycheck), it would still reach full capacity with just 8 million users.
The devs are working hard and the beta is likely to come in 2018. People think naively than increasing the block size will change something. It will in the short or mid term, but not in the long term and you can't keep increasing the blocksize. There needs to be a permanent, well implemented solution and that's what's coming and why it's taking so long.
Blocksize increase alone is not sustainable.
[1] There's a few byte different depending on the output type (p2sh/p2wpkh/p2pkh) but it's pretty much negligible.