Good post, read all the way through and upvoted.
I found this news article below before searching for informative posts on steem and reading yours. The news article plays somewhat to the same tune as your analysis, i.e. the TRON team seem to have no issue being a little disingenuous
https://www.ccn.com/tron-uses-creative-marketing-to-hype-baofeng-partnership/
Thanks for the link, it reminds us VERY MUCH of all the shennanigans which occured in the internet bubble. We remember a time when small internets would pay giant blue-chip CEOs in stock to do a partnership which made for a big soundbite but really weren't anything more than paying shares for hype. We suspect TRON won't be the LAST entity to use such tactics, but so long as crypto prices keep inflating we'll see a TON of this in 2018. Again, this type of thing is EXACTLY why we wrote the article.