While what followed is factually correct, the tone of the opener isn't justified.

One may just as offhandedly say, "if one knew anything about framebuilding, one would know that framebuilders rarely, if ever, use a 44mm headtube, then use adadaptors to fit a smaller fork".

Given no other info, folks were correct in going with the odds, assuming that the headtube and OEM fork were matched, and therefore a larger fork would not fit.