what you dont understand is the usage of throwing nodes off the network before activation is CONTENSIOUS
Oh, boo-hoo. Cry me a river.
consensus is about nothing bad happening before activation, and only activating a feature when there is enough majority to AVOID a fork.
consensus is about not using contensious-forks to instigate a activation.
Consensus is whatever users decide it is. Your wishful thinking is inconsequential. It's about what you can enforce in code. If you can't enforce your wishes in code (and you definitely can't), then you are wasting your time telling us how you'd like it to be.
That belief is not correct. The other option, which apparently needs to be explained to you a billion times over, is that users can enforce rules that disconnect alternative clients. To reiterate, clients following current consensus rules can introduce new rules that effectively fork other clients off the network. That's entirely their prerogative. Not your call. Your obsession with dates is as meaningless as the utter drivel you spout in every topic you derail. Kindly get a clue.
^ that statement i just quoted, is called CONTENTIOUS event. and nothing to do with consensus.
i do not deny that it could happen. i just have been repeatedly informing you that doing contentious forks to bypass/fake a consensus activation, is not what bitcoins purpose was about 2009-2013
the whole point of bitcoins invention and blockchains is to have a system where diversity can come to an agreement without fighting to then progress the rules and without creating an ultimate central leader..
Please quote the part of the whitepaper where it declares the purpose of Bitcoin is to have a bunch of incompatible proposals in a constant state of deadlock, where no one is able to move forward with any new ideas.
While more diversity would be nice, it has never been a prerequisite. The level of diversity other users are willing to accept is yet another one of those things you don't get to decide for them.
Run what you want. Respect what others run. It's really not that hard.