It'll be interesting to see what happens next, to be sure, with two chains running in different(?) directions.
I can't help but think about some of Dan Larimer's earliest commentaries about Steem (then Steemit) in which he often referred to it as an experiment. This all IS just a big experiment... seems a lot of people just started taking everything oh-so-terribly-seriously.
That just shows your original founder didnt believe in the fungibility of steemit and ned was a guitar playing pleb with zero business skills. Justin Sun brings too much to the table to ignore.