>Trying to deny that ぬ is involved in it in any way is as ignorant as you're claiming everybody else is.
黙れよ、バカ外人。「ぬ」が打ち消しの意味で使われる場合は、「ず」が連体形の
活用してるときだけなんだよ。だが、「と」が続いてるから連体形にはなりえないんだよ。
It can't be ぬ grammatically. You are the ignorant here.
>but I will say it feels more like ぬ to me.
Don't feel it. Just study Old Japanese.