I don't really blame him either. The way I understood it he was trying to build something great, but he also made it so that he wasn't necessarily the lead. I guess that's the problem with decentralized stuff. Then others take it over and make it into something you didn't want, so what else can you do but step away. EOS as an operating system is still really sound. WAX is great, and to some degree STEEM and HIVE have the blueprints of EOSIO in them as well with the staking for transactions and all that. Did you ever read his book "More Equal Animals"? I tried to read it, but I got lost after about the first chapter. My mind just doesn't work like that.