I am recovering well from the alarm at Sun's initial post on medium that was indeed a threat to Steem. During the AMA he stated that was not going to happen 'for now' and made several other statements, such as he had no intention of centralizing Steem governance, that greatly reduced the threat to Steem.

I do believe he made those statements in response to community reactions, because he is intent on making money, and fracturing the community with ill advised governance centralization or capturing Steem by Tron will not facilitate that. The most valuable asset he hopes to gain by acquiring Steemit is the Steem community, and he may not have previously understood, as so many new Steemers don't, that Steemit isn't Steem.

He's bright, and seems to have grasped that fact quickly.

Thanks!