Well if it makes you feel any better, during the AMA he said there would be no token swap(for now), that he wasn't trying to get rid of the Steem blockchain, and that he wanted to collaborate.

Also there was a message from Eli that said, that Steemit was definitely not going to do anything to harm the Steem blockchain. I think he just excitedly wanted to poop on the news of Voice coming out, which he did. He walked all those comments back during the AMA.