Is not only about that. Any peer you have channels with will be affected, running knots or not.

We should try to avoid this fork as much as we can, because it could be really messy. The one in 2017 was easy peasy, without LN, everyone doubled their stash easily, but now is much more complicated. I also want to double again my BTC stash, but with LN channels running, is not that simple.

Bitcoin maximalists now fall in line with captured Core because it is too dangerous to do any thing against it is how every project in human history started to degrade. Too big too fail out of this chief Bitcoin maxi mouth.