Apparently the only one who got trolled by Luke-Jr was you because he wasn't trolling. He has been proposing this for some time and it has always been on the table.

I know it doesn't fit your narrative about how miners control everything, but it has always been, and always will be, the option of users to opt for a PoW-reset if miners are viewed by the consensus of economic majority as misbehaving. (I don't know that there is any such consensus and probably Luke-Jr does not either, but who knows, maybe there is or will be.)