We have at least the illusion of consensus on SegWit, and that a good chunk (not any majority) of economic participants do enforce it (considering they rely on for example witness-embedding TX submiss...
Yes that is my point. It is true that miners only follow consensus, they don't create it, but their behaviour is the only objectively observable thing.
The moment you find yourself on a chain that isn't the absolute heaviest with a large margin, you better go check what's going on, software can't help you settle this, and saying that code is law is just cope.
If after manually checking you decided to stick with the lighter fork, fine, but that is subjective decision one that probably includes checking the price of each coin and verifying that your UTXOs aren't stolen, and then making a bet on the future price, and/or make a principled decision like Ethereum classic I guess.
The moment you find yourself on a chain that isn't the absolute heaviest with a large margin, you better go check what's going on, software can't help you settle this, and saying that code is law is just cope.
If after manually checking you decided to stick with the lighter fork, fine, but that is subjective decision one that probably includes checking the price of each coin and verifying that your UTXOs aren't stolen, and then making a bet on the future price, and/or make a principled decision like Ethereum classic I guess.
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