At this point there are 2 possibilities. One is the "nothing burger" scenario, in which the majority chain is right that bip110 was rejected for lack of interest, but does not mean bitcoin is captured. The other is that bitcoin was indeed captured already (there are 3 data points backing that so far) and therefore, a new bitcoin fork is needed to stay decentralized and permissionless. If option one is true, people may have lost time and effort on a fork, but if the other option is true, the fork is the escape hatch you will eventually realize you need to go to.