It is indeed up to the developers to decide if they want to fork away so GPU miners can be the ones securing ZEN blockchain.But a clear answer is not too much to ask for?
About GPU taking over for CPU, you got a valid point!

Wasnt around then, but i imagine some people with CPU riggs complaining

Well this is partly truth, because we don't make decisions on our own, we listen community and Yesterday's fork is an answer on many requests from community to increase Revards for Secure Node and to increse number of Coins needed for Nodes.
Now we have Secure Nodes and Super Nodes and they are direct answer at those questions.
You got clear answer that we have plants to do something regarding ASIC without doubt,
this is official statement https://blog.zencash.com/zencash-statement-on-potential-equihash-algorithm-change/ But we don't want to rush, to do something without investigation and testing! Nor we want to give you false confidence and sense that we are going into the "WAR against ASIC", only to gain some cheap points from miners, like some others who manipulating those feelings of yours..
There will be always those who are not satisfied

, this why we are implementing voting system so everybody who owns some ZEN will be able to govern this project directly using their rights to vote and make proposals.