Let me put it another way. If the vast majority, but not the supermajority of consensus witnesses had upgraded but there were a few who were uncontactable after repeated attempts, they would be out. I say this partly because our 'original' top 30 or so were so tightly bunched that one whale vote had the potential to make a difference.
This could be a moot point and not actually what happened over a tron, but i don't remember a time on Steem where the majority were held waiting for a month before uncontactable/silent consensus witnesses were finally ousted.
That's entirely reasonable and correct, but ask yourself why it didn't happen that way on Tron.
Why didn't the other voters simply kick these SRs? Clearly they had some disagreement with Justin over whether that was needed or even advisable.
I wish I knew more about the situation. It’s strange to think that these 3(?) could keep themselves in consensus if the remainder didn’t support their non-action.
What they need is a place where the masses could document such a thing...oh...