Honestly, I don't think there's any grand plan by "the gang". Justin isn't smart enough even to have held the keys of @community321 for himself. Most if not all the competent developers have left. Justin has money, sure, but without capable developers marketing is useless because the onboarding issues are still to be solved. All the problem solvers are on Hive as far as I see.
I kinda hope you're right. Hive is the heart project for sure.
Still I wouldn't put it past them to just put on a great show to get rid of most brains here before they make it totally part of their own plans. Time will tell.
Hope you're doing alright in these crazy times ;)