I agree with your initial view re the soft fork, and understand, (while disagreeing) with the over reaction by tron.
That's a bit of an understatement, btw. lol

But we are where.
The fight is on that's for sure.

Maybe it's come at a good time, as it shows up the weakness in oligarchical DPOS.

Something 'new Steem' needs to look at after this has settled out.
One thing is for sure, if it continues in the same vein, this hostile takeover paradigm will repeat and repeat.
It's mathematically inevitable. 'Oligarchs are gonna oligarch'.
That's for later though...