[CryptoPunk]

Miners were solidly behind a hard fork. Every major stakeholder group, minus the Core development team, was solidly for it.

[nullc]

That is simply not true. You can even look to the public markets, there were futures on each of these fork attempts and they traded at a tiny fraction of the price of Bitcoin.

[CryptoPunk]

The majority of mining power signalled support for several attempts to do a hard fork to raise the block size limit:

https://twitter.com/btcinchina/status/804163370043588608

"3rd largest #bitcon #mining pool BW signal support for 8M blocksize, following the consensus from scaling conference."

And another initiative:

https://www.coindesk.com/btcchina-support-gives-bip-100-bitc...

"BTCChina Support Gives BIP 100 Bitcoin Hashrate Majority"

>>there were futures on each of these fork attempts and they traded at a tiny fraction of the price of Bitcoin.

The futures predicted the likelihood of the fork happening, not what percentage of miners supported them.