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I think they did know, which is why they didn't try. You need 2/3 of both houses of congress and a ratification by 3/4 of the states. There has been no time between 2000 and 2024 when that would have had the remotest chance of happening. All they would have done would be to waste taxpayer dollars on something performative.
Like I said, I don't like the electoral college and I wish we didn't have it, but we're stuck with it.
You don't actually need Congress at all. You need 2/3rds of the states to initiate the process via the convention route, and 3/4 to ratify (so functionally, probably 3/4 of states, assuming that a state willing to ratify is also willing to initiate).
But functionally, there is no way that 3/4 of the states are going to make a change to shift power away from smaller states to larger states, which moving away from the electoral college would do (well, okay, it doesn't have to do that, but if you want it to be moving towards a population-only weighting, which I think is the main reason that a lot of people on the left side of the aisle would like that to change, it does).
Okay, fair enough, but that's not going to happen either.
While you’re content throwing up your hands claiming nothing can be done, republicans already have a plan to change the electoral college to their advantage.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/nebraska-electoral-system