I can only recommend an earlier answer at present, but the gunpowder plot wasn't the spearhead of some popular uprising, but the actions of an extremist religious faction acting against the prevailing political/religious outlook of England at the time. I think this fantastic post by u/thefeckamIdoing should give an idea of the political situation leading up to the plot and how the celebration of its undoing wasn't a hard pill to swallow for the population after: