or maybe they just dont want to and keep pulling the rubber till it breaks
Corrected that for you
But those a few is enough to decide everything. Someone said, like FOMC meeting, basically 12 people in bitcoin ecosystem decide where it goes, sadly but true, at least for now
I think a lot of users (nodes) and miners do not talk on this forum or reddit, or venues like that. But they are aware of what is going on and know exactly what to do in the case of another contentious hard fork threat like XT. Nodes will be spoofed, pools will be DDOS'd, and Classic's incompetence will be showcased for the community.
Gavin/Classic's plan of depending on convincing centralized pool operators, while pretending that a majority of nodes would ever switch to Classic.... it's adorable, really. But Classic supporters will find, like XT supporters before them, that it's all for the LOLz. A bad joke, but a joke nonetheless.