Also, I don't think anybody believes his stake belongs to them. He could easily get out of this ordeal by setting the accounts in question to not be allowed to vote. That's in line with his own stated goal. This is to prevent the blockchain from being centralized. Which turns out to be a just fear because that's what he's done anyway.
So if that is what he was going to do all along, the witnesses just spedthingsup with the soft fork.
Things were definitely sped up haha