I think that's the point though. Why risk switching to XT and the potential chaos, even if you support it or it's features?
This is kind of a crucial point that's not been made enough: if Mike and Gavin tried to start a real alt coin, not one that relies on Bitcoin's infrastructure, they would fall flat on their faces (and they've not done much better than that otherwise). There is little to no demand for alts, people want bitcoin.
If any brave soul was previously considering being the first to defect from Bitcoin's economic majority to begin the process of forming an alternative XT economic majority, they now have to account for the even greater risks due to the uncertainty introduced by spoofed version stamps and NotXT sybil nodes.
No business could possibly justify such a risky move, for no potential gain other than the good feeling of winning an obscure internet nerd fight.
Now its up to some very courageous individuals to jump-start XT's economy, by doing such things as selling me their bullion and coins in exchange for XTcoins.
I was sure smoothie would be XT's one crazy dancer guy who starts a party but he chickened out. Apparently his support, being limited to running an XT node as a 'fuck you' to Team Core, is a mile wide and an inch deep.
You are totally missing the point of bitcoinXT. The only thing that will lead to a majority of honest node is a bloat in the blockchain itself where businesses won't be able to process the transactions they need due to a fail of bitcoin core to deliver proper scaling on time. BitcoinXT is just a fall back plan in case of a bitcoin core failure and will happen naturally if there is a need in the market. If bitcoin core delivers then nothing will happen. I don't see the point of so much fear mongering over hard forking. THERE IS AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE TO REACH CONSENSUS NO MATTER THE OUTCOME. Releasing the code in the wild might not be pleasing you but it relieved the stress of many people about their concerns over a bitcoin core failure. If that concern reaches consensus then be it!