Fear always drives rash decisions, and also calculated ones.
One conspiracy could be that JS had a plan to destroy Steem altogether as it was so driven by community and that could be seen as a threat to Tron. however this is a blind decision unless you are a maniachal dictatorial despot. and then its just sefishly ego driven.

Hmm, I do recall Microsift making theses types of moves on lesser know systems, Buy them out and then squash them. bt all the time alluding to offreing them greater improvement.

But that just a desperate conspiracy.

I like to think positively and look to future direction whatever that may be.

I, like yourself, will be sticking with what I know and keep my loyalties, however blind they may be, with where they lai now, it has held me in good stead for many may years and will continue to do so.