I agree that we should minimize the number of steps that require trust, especially trust of Justin Sun. Trust is what got us into this problem, because the community felt STINC had obligations that were not coded.

Frankly, I haven't been convinced by any of the historical materials that STINC made binding statements regarding exactly how they'd use their stake. Therefore, I think we should avoid freezing or encumbering this stake. At this point that the status quo.

In fact, the status quo is actually a fine solution. As long as Tron / Sun cannot obtain a super-majority of witnesses, the protocol remains as is, i.e. safe. There is still risk that Sun has liquid STEEM that could be powered up to regain complete witness control.

In this case, economic nodes should refuse to upgrade to hardforked software that the community doesn't support. Even if a Sun supermajority hard forks, there is no need for the community to adopt that protocol. Yes steemit.com would be running on a fork there'd be two blockchains.