I disagreed with forking the ninja-mine over, and still do. Development should have come from witness rewards, with a scarcer token making them more valuable.
There's no way to know how much enthusiasm and momentum it cost us, to not just drop the damn ring into the volcano, so maybe I'm wrong.
Yep, Destroying it was definitely the right option... and I've definitely beat myself up a bit for not realizing how massive a red flag it was that they put it into their own coffers instead.
I wanted it burned too, but it wasn't, so here we are. It would have been a massive message to the world.