Great elaboration from your side.
Since recently the idea of forking out and nullify the STINC stake doesnt seems that bad to me. We will continue on a sister chain, with all the community on it, and one of the big opsticle, exchange listings seems to be in our favor lately. I bet we will get few listings just becouse. We will have a clean slate and a moral highgrown. Although we will need to wotk on funding development, etc.
The other option is to continue forever with this massive stake as a burden and Sun on board, someone me personaly and I belive the steem community as a whole, and even the grand crypto comm. dont like him a bit.
This idea that there will be two chains astounds me. Yes, of course there will be two chains to start, but the shear number of people who think Sun's chain isn't going to get dumped to zero somewhat amazes me.
In my mind he will put zero extra development into this technology. The plan was always to migrate the community to Tron. He doesn't have devs, he's not looking for devs. Account recovery and onboarding already don't work.
Sun's one skill is to generate hype cycles and create pump/dumps. No matter how many times he does it, people keep believing that the value he generates will be retained in the network somehow.
I think it's silly how people are worried that Steemit Inc is going to steal our exchange listings considering how all of this is going down. Steemit Inc is, for all intents and purposes, already dead.
Yes, it's going to suck being on our own and having to figure all this out without the organization of a centralized company, but we'll get there.