Bitcoin's consensus is working as originally intended by Satoshi Nakamoto (miners vote with their hashing power).
Consistency of blockchain state within the protocol is an orthogonal concept to decisions to change the protocol, which only the token users have the power to decide. The miners are just the paid workers for the former activity. They have absolutely no power to change the protocol.
thats what core wants us to think!
devs provide options, nodes(users + miners) pick and choose the best options.
thankfully the devs do things like signaling so we can see who's willing to accept what so we can work toward consensus.
believe it or not devs to not get to force consensus.
we are all kind of nessary to the consensus process.
we need devs to provide the code
miners must be willing to run it
nodes must also be willing to run it
and most importantly ( but the easiest to sway ) , the economic majority must be willing to go along with it.