You're not going to tell me that the combined efforts of 6 Vegapunks couldn't have literally reprogrammed York to do anything they wanted. Gather intel, mislead the Gorosei, whatever.
This is so annoying to read - I had just shy of zero hope for Oda to close Egghead off in a decent way, but you can just always trust nowadays that Oda will write pretty much the worst thing you can think of.