August 1 Bitcoin segwit meltdown?

Hi Steemers, I was wondering if any crypto currency investors are holding off investing in Bitcoin because of the July 21 soft fork. Even if that goes through, to try and steal the march on the more aggressive 1 August hard forkers, the matter probably won't be completely settled until November when the 2mb block-size increase is supposed to be implemented. So it won't be until November that we can be sure of avoiding a hard fork.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miners-unite-behind-scaling-proposal-segwit2x/

My own thoughts are that this will severely dampen Bitcoin price growth for the rest of the year. I think when the matter is settled then Bitcoin could skyrocket, the sky will be the limit, but it will take so long that Bitcoin won't be above $4k by the end of the year.

I am predicting a difficult July for cryptocurrencies. I don't think a hard fork Bitcoin dominated by big mining companies would be successful. Any thoughts?