I'm guessing the downvotes were a response to the tone of the post, not the actual content.

Though, the content itself is incorrect as well. Consensus has been achieved by the miners and by a few major payment processors, but not by the userbase. Blockchains though are very resistant to moves by major players, and even the miners being at 85% are not enough to force fundamental changes like this into the network if the users do not actively want to participate in the changes.

Note the wording there. The users have to opt-in to a change like this. It's opt-in, not opt-out. I'm very doubtful that software which is not even out in the wild yet is going to be able to get a majority of users to opt-in within a 3 week timeline.

We will know soon enough for sure.