"Developers" do not govern this coin (ostensibly). Masternodes do - or at least are supposed to. If masternodes make wrong decisions (as they did with the last big protocol change) it's they who suffer because they have most at stake. So the community has to be persuaded first before any developer pressure / forking nonsense is viable.

Not an easy thing to do I accept because tribal allegiance and "hopium" are generally much more powerful motivators than simple reading-of-numbers.

But the alternative is to watch their collateral shrivel up and die like many other hybrid POS assets did, and for similar reasons.