Not with SegWit addresses they couldn't, because the entire point of carrying out the Bitcoin Cash fork was to create something Bitcoin-like that didn't have Se

Not with SegWit addresses they couldn't, because the entire point of carrying out the Bitcoin Cash fork was to create something Bitcoin-like that didn't have Segwit and that its well-funded proponents could insist was the real Bitcoin. (They like to call Bitcoin "SegwitCoin".)