While he has been a valuable asset to our community, I am not aware that he is involved in any mining thus he has ultimately no say in whether this fork goes through or not. There seems to be this misunderstanding or mythology being proposed that he is foisting this upon the community when a majority (as can be demonstrated from this poll ) agree with him and many others have been suggesting thus, including Satoshi himself from years ago.

If anything I think the developers (Including Gavin) are being too patient and we should set some predefined schedules of a few more testing phases and than come to a more detailed consensus within the next couple months based upon how exactly this hard fork is going to be implemented because it will likely happen despite the chagrin you may have from the outcome.

We should set a deadline where others have an opportunity to submit their detailed suggested proposals and tests as Gavin has done with the scalability roadmap, than have another deadline where we can discuss and study the proposals, than go through with it.

P.s... I understand that users and full nodes will vote upon which fork they choose, but you may as well be considered an alt if you don't have the hashing power backing your chain because any remnant chain that doesn't perform their own fork to at least adjust difficulty manually will immediately be dead in the water overnight.