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The problems have arisen because of May’s red lines, which are incompatible with the Good Friday agreement, not because of MPs.
It's not a binary choice. May was thinking about placating party membership and the Brexit-voting part of the electorate and she put that before thinking about what was practical. But MPs would probably have struggled to agree on the implementation (as opposed to the simple action of triggering article 50) in any case.
It's a lot easier to get a majority of any group to agree that "something must be done" than to make them agree on how to do it.
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That’s bullshit. How did MPs not act on the referendum result, given that they voted by a large majority to trigger article 50?
The problems have arisen because of May’s red lines, which are incompatible with the Good Friday agreement, not because of MPs.