Thanks for sharing your insights, Luke... and doing so in a rational and calm manner. Indeed, we can get all fired up, or we can look at these events as teaching experiences.
Since I am not so much a developer/blockchainiac, and more of a business/marketing person... I watch all these events with a lot of interest. The idea of decentralization is fascinating; my first impression some years back was the challenge of "fragmentation;" as a more informed observer today, I still point to the issue of fragmentation.
I'm sure the DLive crew had some fine ideas of their own and that's not what I question. Instead, I am looking way down the road as a user and thinking to myself "I don't want to have to keep 43 blogs because the market is so fragmented that no one single venue can be heard over any one other."
Whereas I don't like Facebook (for philosophical reasons) I DO like Facebook because all my stuff is in one place. I don't have to "reinvent the wheel" in order to use social media.
And so — to come back to DLive — is this move of their designed to serve DLive, or DLive USERS? And how many Steemit based DLive users are planning to migrate with them... thereby "dividing" their content, rather than consolidating it?
Just some random thoughts rattling around in my head.