Thank you for this summary, and for giving a different point of view to the community. Most of them are biased by the posts in the trending since few weeks.
To get to know you well I know how bad diplomat you are and your post made me laugh, but is that because you have the will to always say the truth? Probably...
I also know how hard you worked for the success of the dtube project and how much you have contributed to the success of STEEM in recent years, without making any concessions and much more than 90% of the witnesses.
Steemit Inc. screwed all of us, and did not respect their engagement/promises, this happened to me with many projects and some other chains, so I'm not so mad, I already got the experience and didn't get hurt so hard by this. But what would you have made if you were the lead of Steemit (I'm not talking about Tron)? What are you gonna do for avalon/dtube? Don't you want to keep the governance of the chain at some point and a way to fund developments for the best of the project?
We don't share the same vision but at least we have many common points, and we made the same choices, we refused any form of corruption and did not pretend to run a witness node for years, simply because we were interested by ideas and improvements, rather than the power and the money. I have no doubt that dtube could have been of the top 5 witness if you had the will to do so.
I was also disgusted to see that the same hypocrites who speak to community of the well-being of the blockchain are the same who are the most corrupt. Not all of them for sure because there are still some people with a good heart/will too, but still most of them. People also think that witnesses are intelligent people and good technician/devs, while many of them are not better than scriptkiddies and have an IQ around 50. I'm not blaming anyone for not being intelligent, don't get me wrong, but I blame them for giving this impression, it can be simply the dunning kruger effect who affect them.
Those hypocrites are the same ones who applied a softwork without warning anyone, when I made a call to gather all our forces, and they forced Tron to make this takeover. Today they still downvotes publications and comments that do not go in their direction. It's funny when those who talk about decentralization and freedom are the first to carry out censorship on this blockchain by different ways and does not assume any form of criticism.
The community fork will result in a big failure in my opinion (but I may be wrong) and I don't even trust that the new chain will be decentralized, from what I have seen until now.
Steem will not die in my opinion, it made us understand the good and the bad of DPOS and above all the flaws of its governance. So we will keep it in our mind and that even if the chain halt one day or is merged on Tron.
We also met many great people and will keep interacting together so if somebody lost something, it can be money, it can be power, but we all gained some friendships and some experience, and that's probably worth.
Dan Larimer himself said that witnessing is a brainless activity
You should give it a try ;)