Source?

In any case, a fork of Bitcoin with bigger blocks has existed for years and the market doesn't prefer it despite all the big names and companies hyping it up at the time of the split.

Satoshi left Bitcoin so there wouldn't be an appeal to authority so maybe your argument isn't as strong as you think it is.

> Source?

GGP was CTO of Blockstream (https://blog.blockstream.com/en-blockstream-bids-farewell-to...)