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The incentive here isn't to pick the side of the fork you agree with; it's to pick the side of the fork you believe will win. So you can't really say that the rollback side winning means that most miners agreed with the rollback - rather it means that most miners thought the rollback side would win. There's a strong element of "self-fulfilling prophesy" here.



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