If replacing you is the better course, they would do that regardless of your choice. They can keep manufacturing worse and worse ultimatums. They don't just speed run that because there is a danger to unilaterally removing democratically elected officials and they'd rather officials just comply with their desires and maintain the veneer of peace and order. They're boiling frogs all across the nation while the leadership of various government and private institutions decides "it's just one capitulation to preserve my ability to resist later when the real crisis arrives".