I appreciate that you'd ask the community.
I will respond the same way I did to a fellow student and teacher who decided to leave our dojo:
If you go it will be a loss, both to me and to the community. I've just gotten started here, and am still excited about what we could build. That's not just hypothetical; I have an outline for what my level up project could be and about 200 Steem on Binance just swing trading until they unfreeze withdrawals. But I would adapt and could not fault you for going, everyone has to do what they know is right for them.
I have no interest in whaleshares or any other platform. I am now prompted to ask myself why. I think it is a personality trait that I commit to the end of something. Sometimes that's a good quality, other times it would be better if I set a clear boundary when to bail on something. As for Steemit, I am still using the "don't risk what you can't stand to lose" approach, so I feel good about saying I'm in one platform, win or lose, that's it.
If you're still weighing options, I see a middle way between #1 and #2: get help to implement the program. So far you have support in the form of delegations and engaged participants, but it's really a one man show. Perhaps I'm really sensitive to this because I face a really similar situation with my dojo, and I'm at a point where I really have to organize my various supports into a true team effort - or else hit that limit (that I never really set) where I'll have to call it quits.
Unfortunately the problem with a system that I'm bootstrapping by killing my own hourly rate is that I don't have enough income to pay anyone else a reasonable wage to help. And I'm not enthused about doing it any other way.
Before HF20 I really thought that I could put together a pitch package and have some chance to secure some angel funding. The next thing was going to be really cool, and The Mesopotamians is a good proof-of-work project.
But I can't justify asking anyone else for their money to put here at this point.