If I'm going to trust the enforceability of my contract to some group of people, I trust the established legal system--warts and all--much more than the mob rule of the Ethereum crowd.
If a fork happened in Classic to protect some party's financial interests, I think the more likely scenario is the great majority of miners opting to stay on the original branch.
I get that it's not a complete guarantee, but neither is the legal system. Contracts can be invalidated based on a judge's perception of their unfairness, on a technicality, or even on a whim.
Also known as "miner consensus", same for all crypto currencies including btc
So is bitcoin.
Unless they're interested for purely speculative purposes, in which case it was a good bet that the non-Classic version would be more remunerative.