Well I got an Irish passport by this time so the rules don't apply to me.
Getting the Irish passport would make you subject to them wouldn't it?
But ok, fair enough, you knew. I hadn't heard about this problem until this week. With no reason to believe the rules had changed, had I been a dual national with a foreign passport, I would have had no reason to check the entry requirements for the UK. I've certainly never checked them before, only the destination requirements. I'm sure I wouldn't have done so.
Maybe hearing this from someone directly makes you understand that this really wasn't something everyone knew about?