Don't be disingenuous. Steemit Inc and several exchanges colluded to create sock puppet witnesses and used them to seize control of the top witness slots. What is that if not a coup, and a blatant violation of promised neutrality from Steemit and the exchanges? That is exactly the kind of interference the temporary soft fork was intended to forestall, and it shouldn't have mattered anyway since it was only a code enforcement of prior promises made by Ned et al. and the Steemit TOS.

Sun is the one actively destroying STEEM with proxy voting. When the witnesses were ousted, they also accepted Sun's dishonorable behavior as the new status quo and determined the only way to secure the community voice was to fork into a new chain.

If you are trying to draw some kind of equivalence between denying an airdrop in a new chain and freezing accounts in the old chain, or presenting a proposal for public discourse and creating secret blacklists, you can only be a quisling.