Couldn't agree more, but that's not really an option if you happen to be one of the people currently getting robbed.
Also I think it's bad PR for HIVE moving forward if the narrative is..."Oh well, both sides stole from each other, it was tit for tat" Which is what's trying to be crafted online. That story is damaging to this community and everyone's investment here. It also happens to be a flat out lie.
If people want to say this all started with freezing the Steemit funds, that's at least debatable. But it's not debatable to say that Hive was 'stolen" from people.
There was no theft in the creation of Hive as you pointed out quite clearly. I do sort of disagree on the final separation, I think for Hive to grow it really does need to settle the final case load of air drop challenges and then call it done. People that are interested in moving from steem to hive and were excluded from the air drop have had sufficient time to apply for the airdrop. Their accounts are already here for them to use and there are a few who are only using hive, have been powering down and moving over.
I have no knowledge of when Hive was created, if it was from the freezing of the funds or not, or if it was even started by anyone involved in the freezing of the funds. That was done by witnesses, how many witnesses were on the Hive Creation team? I don't know and to be honest it really does not matter to me. What does matter is Hive moving on and putting Steem behind it, and standing 100% on its own. It can not do that with the specter of Air Drop claims still on the books, the books need to be cleared and they should be cleared ASAP.
Yea, I agree on this. I know that some of the people excluded are receiving their drop via the DHF. They just need to apply. Nothing is holding back anyone from making their proposals to receive a drop at this point.