Therefore, it’s a matter of will. They have a fallen will. Stephen said to his persecutors “you always resist the Holy Spirit.”
They “could” submit, but they “wouldn’t.”
If they COULD submit, but don’t, it is a real choice. If they CANNOT submit, because dead means dead and that is the only way we are described (and it isn’t), then they COULDN’T submit.
I say they WOULDN’T, and God foreknew that but did not compel it.