Perhaps the one’s not speaking out hold it is an issur d’rabbonon. Not avoda zora. There is another prohibition, called “vhayisem nekiim” where we derive an obligation not to do anything that would make us look guilty in the eyes of others, even if we are really innocent. They hold that the shaitel is not acceptable because it defeats the purpose of the prohibition, being that it looks like hair anyway. That a shaitel, especially a human hair shaitel, defeats the purpose of the Halachah to cover the hair altogether. You are just covering Ervah with something that looks exactly like Ervah, so what’s the point?
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