If by ALL accounts, ONLY miners can update the code running a blockchain, literally nothing else makes any sense, how did so many idiots fall for Blockstream's injection of malicious code through their, "UASF"?.

My question is, how did SOOO many people in 2017 fall for the "UASF" scam that Blockstream used to inject their SegWit code?

I'm glad I wasn't around back then because I would have been screaming from the rooftops what idiots everyone was for falling for such an obvious scam. Clearly there can be no such thing as a user activated fork that uses non-mining nodes to inject new code into a running blockchain.

Is it just in hindsight that it is so obvious that that user activated soft fork thing was simply a scam by blockstream in order to get their code injected into the Bitcoin project? Or, did people know at the time what block stream was trying to do?