actually you have stated the main point which is

Many "hivers" would claim total victory within the conflict, which started so many months ago and social media would go wild with that news. It's very difficult for me to imagine, that this wouldn't hit mass media and wouldn't have long term devastating results for Steemit and TRON.

i personally believe that its for sure that it will largely effect tron and steems reputation.

According to the prices i have seen hive price is going up now and steem is going reverse of it .

But the thing is : when we are earning from any platform we should curse it so we all should pray for both these platforms because many of people earn their livings from here as you said many people, communities do powerdown for their needs