I think the question is more "why not"? Looks like the Litecoin dev team is available to help them...
Beg your pool operator overlords to fix it for you!
Unfortunately I think there aren't pool operators doubling as code contributers for Bitcoin. Or maybe there isn't any pool operator with a good/better idea to begin with.
We know one of the reasons for this, i.e. deploying catastrophic software as a 'scaling alternative'.
So Open Bazaar started to think about adopting altcoins because Unlimited released a botched/bugged update? Doesn't look like so.
I'm not Twitter savvy. They're talking about OB accepting other cryptos, right? Am I missing something else? Is OB dead or something? Never used it myself.
He definitely has a point. Fees are killing bitcoin's utility as a currency.
That's correct. Open Bazaar isn't dead, there aren't many people using though, from what I can gather.