“since the vocal majority has already made up their mind of abandoning consensus and simply forcing their desired changes through. IMO the act of abandoning consensus was the biggest danger in the first place, so since the damage has already been done we might as well go along with it.”

Can you elaborate what you mean? If the majority has decided something how is that not the consensus? How is relying upon pow abandoning consensus? Do you consider the coming hard fork to pos in the same light? If not, why not?