It's not over and the choice doesn't lay with the miners. It lays with the market, with the people who decide to invest in this project or not. Nobody is going to dump a billion dollars into bitcoin currency and infrastructure knowing they can be held hostage by miners at any time. BIP100 does not do enough to allay those fears.
Miners need to be fucking broken to get it into their fat heads that we don't want to buy cripplecoins. I'm selling any pump and not buying back until they grok the situation.
You don't like mining without fees? Try mining $100 coins. Who run Bartertown? I run Bartertown.
You and the 13% of nodes that XT topped out at? Time to make a compromise, or sell, I'm pretty sure the market can stand your frustration dumpage. The argument and subsequent arrival of XT showed the core devs they don't live in a vacuum, and you should be happy about it.
Edit: Very poor decision by Hearn to include anything else in XT, gasoline to a(n) (imaginary) fire that already existed about his real motives.