Boker tov bitcoin devs,

A mechanism of soft-forking against activation exists.  What more do you want?

Agreed -- that should be enough.

 
Are we supposed to write the code on behalf of this hypothetical group of users who may or may not exist for them just so that they can have a node that remains stalled on Speedy Trial lockin? 
That simply isn't reasonable, but if you think it is, I invite you to create such a fork.

Disagree.

It is a reasonable ask.

I've done it in about 40 lines of python: https://github.com/jeremyrubin/forkd

Merry Christmas Jorge, please vet the code carefully before running.

Peace,

Jeremy