I saw an interview with @dan explaining there were not separated, that Steem need growth in User Expirience terms and design concepts, which he is no longer really needed, so he went to create EOS in good terms to create a Crypto-App that can link any programmer (many code sources) to the crypto-currency world...
Thanks for this post, @taskmaster4450, im really going into this new release... just for curiosity, are you getting into the ICO?
Cheers!