As long as the move isn't made out of desperation, because that's how bad choices are made.
I agree with this. That is one of the reasons I like BU. The miners have an intelligent well thought out plan for how the fork will be activated IF it is activated, and it is done in three very cautious steps with each step taking a full difficulty cycle to complete. User activated soft fork is the only thing that could throw a wrench in their plan, as that may require an immediate fork. They do not want to do that.
With the blocks currently full however, LN then becomes something people have to use out of desperation to conduct normal business rather than out of choice.
Well, if "miners have an intelligent well thought plan", why didn't it happen then already ? Because the "evil people at core" are not allowing them to collude and activate BU ? Of course not. Simply because they cannot agree. And happily, that they cannot agree. Because if they did, it would mean that there is a >51% collusion between miners, and bitcoin's immutability is gone.
Also, "users" cannot activate segwit. ONLY miners can. segwit being a soft fork, it is something users have no say about, and if it gets activated, something users cannot "downvote".
So users cannot impose segwit at all.
Users cannot decide to activate BU either. But at least, when miners (with their cunning plan, remember) activate it, if they do not collude for >90%, there will be two coins, and users can then *vote with their money* on how the market cap of bitcoin will be divided between the new coin and the old coin.
Again, nobody is imposing anything on anybody. The evil core people do not have the magic power to hold BU back. BU not happening, is simply because there's no consensus over it. Segwit not happening, is simply because there's no consensus over it. As it should be in a distributed trustless consensus system that provides for immutability.
Also, it is not because they are running BU software to "vote", that they are willing to actually activate the genuine hard fork, meaning, making really blocks > 1 MB. You don't know how many of the BU voters only do this to avoid segwit, but have no intention to really do the fork. Because you still have to mine your first block > 1MB and not have it orphaned...