Their original intention was to have a much higher amount of hashrate than that. I suppose they've got almost nowhere to go but down from here if people keep losing faith.
That said, it looks like the amount of support SegWit2x is losing is still not quite as dramatic as it's being presented. It's going to require most of the major players, including BITMAIN, to back down for it to become less relevant. For now, it's still a very significant event and there's not long left to go.
It is indeed a very significant event.
I'm more interested how significant a
threat 2x currently poses.
I find it curious that btc1 node numbers have lately risen considerably, and in a fashion that seems indicative of corporate gaming, not groundswell demand or grassroots preference[I would note J. Lopp's observation that ~800/900 btc1 nodes are running on AWS]. After spending so much time and effort asserting that only hash-rate matters, and full nodes are to be wholly discounted, it seems the prime movers behind 2x are themselves not wholly convinced of their own arguments.
This is something I see as one of the surest signs this thing is DOA.
Perhaps it's all over but the crying?