what do you mean "fall for"? as far as I can tell the intent was never to create a separate chain but a debate over the rules on the chain. at a high level it looks like 20% of nodes wanted bip110, 80% were apathetic as there was no clear rejection of it, and the miners said we'll decide for you. whats happened now is the likes of the core devs have been given the green lught to make changes unilaterally and not enough peoole give a fuck to push back. exactly the same in our politics where not enough peoole stand up to governments so they push through whatever laws they want. the fact there wasn't a sensible debate, just a shouting match, should concern all bitcoiners.