The devs were the ones to propose it. Historically, miners rarely object to hard fork proposals due to how complicated it would make things, as well as fucking with market values.
They could switch to another sha256 crypto right?
Of course they could. But we don't want them to mine BTC. We want them to mine BCH, because that secures OUR network.
We have 3% of BTC's hashrate and we are pushing it away to BTC
