Luckily we don't need compromise. Block size increase is just changing the code that limit the block size. If everybody got along the increase (Eg:Dash) then even a noob could handle the increase. Since there was an entire civil war Roger Ver and team had to do a more complicated Hard Fork and then came BTG and unsuccessful 2X.
"probably won't make it vulnerable to attacks."
-I'm no expert but to my knowledge just changing the block size limit has Zero increased security risk. Can't say that about SegWit. Here is an old article from someone who seems to know the subject considerably well: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@modprobe/i-looked-into-segwit-and-here-s-what-i-saw
Hope it helps.
May the governance coins win!