There are several ways to look at how this all unfolded, and questions will all ways be there as to the why of it and the different spin people put on it. I am glad to see the almost finalization to this. I would have preferred this was not needed at all. That once the initial airdrop was done it was all over. Hive was not created to just be a mirror of steem, it was created because a few people felt it was needed and could be a violable option to a centralized steem block chain and return control to a decentralized state to continue on with the decentralized experiment.

No one is excluded from joining or participating on the Hive block chain. Had the individuals that made the split just ignored all the outcry of unfair and ended it at that one air drop, then we may have been a lot closer to correcting the Issue that led to the split. The Witness selection and retention system.