I think there is a group of people who are all friends with each other, and who are also connected to Blockstream who want to keep the block size small. Literally everyone else outside of this circle of friends wants the blocksize to increase. That clique is very powerful within the bitcoin community, as many of them own many of the community venues such as irc, reddit and bitcointalk. My experience has been that internet communities fade over time, so it's only a matter of time before all of these people find other more interesting irc channels to "inhabit". As time goes on, this friend group will fade away and what will be left are communities like this one where people's values regarding blocksize are much different.