Nothing wrong with miners joining up with antpool, if that's what they believe is the best thing to do, but in reality they are not going to do it because they are not that dumb. 

This XT/classic bullshit has played out for long enough that even people who were giving the benefit of the doubt to Gavin and some of the other disingenuous folks, have kind of figured out that the underlying goal was not really to fix any real technical problem, and therefore there is a fair presumption of disingenuousness and even evil coming from that camp.. and a large number of the miners (who are invested in the success of bitcoin) are not going to fuck up their livelihood for some fanciful chasing of ghosts that don't in fact exist.