Not at all. Miners choose to mine the cryptocurrency that is most popular; they don't choose which cryptocurrency will be the most popular. They are at the end of the chain of causation. Hashpower follows price.
If 95% of miners wanted something, but nobody else did, then every single block they mined would be ignored as invalid by the rest of the users in the ecosystem. They'd be foregoing huge profits by the minute, and inevitably would start defecting in ever-increasing numbers.
The only way a hard-fork ever has a prayer of taking over the main chain is if it gets implemented in the most popular software programs used on the network (e.g. Bitcoin Core). This is what killed Segwit2X, despite seemingly having massive miner support. Note that the miners immediately capitulated; such easy capitulation does not lend much weight to the importance of the 90% figure. They're full of hot air.
If 95% of miners wanted something, but nobody else did, then every single block they mined would be ignored as invalid by the rest of the users in the ecosystem. They'd be foregoing huge profits by the minute, and inevitably would start defecting in ever-increasing numbers.
The only way a hard-fork ever has a prayer of taking over the main chain is if it gets implemented in the most popular software programs used on the network (e.g. Bitcoin Core). This is what killed Segwit2X, despite seemingly having massive miner support. Note that the miners immediately capitulated; such easy capitulation does not lend much weight to the importance of the 90% figure. They're full of hot air.