Jane Austen is nearly scientific in pairing characters and
(contrastingly) mirroring them according to their level of what we, as readers, could dub
"maturity".
Wentworth changes because he is mature enough to
understand where his happiness actually could come from. Anne, in a way, changes because she has
differentiated the counseling from Lady Russell form her own mature opinion. Yet, Sir Walter does
not change, and neither do those who hold a high esteem of it. Why? Because, socially speaking,
these women had a better chance to be accepted in a quite superficial society by sticking to
their own ways than through changing and becoming better
persons.
Hence, the answer is that society holds the last card in
Jane Austen's world. It was all quite put together from top to bottom, and there was no
questioning involved. Hence, whatever happened, went on.
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