“bitcoiners would ignore their fork and carry on with the current chain”

This is what I mean though. Bitcoiners would continue running nodes that accept only real Bitcoin blocks, and reject blocks built by miners that are “blackrock blocks”.

Point of blocksize wars was that nodes have more control, no?

Miners can be captured by state actors, corporations, whatever, but it’s up to the noderunners to accept the blocks that get mined. That’s my understanding at least, but trying to fill in any gaps 🙏