Exactly. 50% isn't enough to reach consensus. I also know pools that voted against it, which kind of regret that now that they understand things better. A big issue is that miners and some of the pools were still raw over progpow.
Point #1 is a big one. A huge number of people thought that fees would go down.
They included the biggest miners and overall > 50% of the mining power as far as I could tell.
>The mechanics I'm referring to are in the 50+ page document that I read,
I wish you'd specify what mechanic in particular you think others misunderstood and you didn't, as I included the main ones from their arguments.