with current settings about consensus, SegWit has (unfortunately?) no chance to come to life.
I feel like the devs should have somehow enforced this
Perhaps Blockstream never wanted SegWit adoption. That 95% activation level seems to have been designed to fail from the get-go.
Why would they spend all that money and time on this, if they intended this to fail? Nobody willingly enter into a work contract to work on a project that are aimed at failure. I think they underestimated the support they had, just like Gavin & Hearn did with Bitcoin XT.
The backdoor is always there for them to implement it with other technologies on other coins or Blockchain based technologies.