I agree, it's far from ideal and definitely not my first choice in the migration process. Given the set of options we had as far as what's left behind on Steem-Engine, I think this is the best one.
Any other process would have been dragged out and carried a lot of headaches with it. Worse even than the initial airdrop of LEO that took 3-4 tries and 2 weeks worth of DMs to get right.
This is an imperfect, but efficient solution. As you said, it's ripping the band-aid right off and I hope that this will allow us to just spread the word and migrate quickly and leave "old LEO and old steem" in the dust for good.
Good idea. I'll stay active tomorrow before, during and after the migration and keep regular updates rolling out via Discord, Twitter and Hive.