Of course, that’s set to change the day they leave, as HardFork 20 takes effect and would have allowed them to register plenty of new accounts directly themselves through their own site.
As others have pointed out and have explained thoroughly in other articles, evidence is clear dLive always intended to only use Steem as a test and early marketing. Their leaving was preplanned and has little to nothing to do with any shortcomings of Steem.