It doesn't take Blockstream or any other group to try to avoid segwit2x. Segwit2x is just nonsense. Jeff Garzik wants to get anti privacy code on btc1 and they want to make btc1 take the lead.
Data shows we don't need 2MB. Mempool is fine, only not fine when Roger Ver spams the network. Rushing a hardfork in 3 months is just dumb. Let's hope miners realize their mistake so we don't have to go through a price crash thanks to big blockers again in 3 months, but that's all big blockers do: crash the price.