With their investors and advisers I feel they just want to be players in the new regulated financial blockchain, in the same way btc is being co-opted by the banks and financial institutions that shouldn't be. Sort of obvious by now. Having said that Eos still has a lot of incredible builders and the eosio itself remains a leader in many respects despite other technologies catching up. 2.1 is going to provide a level of resilience unmatched and ease of use is finally improving. Evm is coming to telos shortly. Pluggable consensus is amazing too. The coming ibc world will include many communities running on eosio. Having an eosio core development team funded by those communities will be key, and Eos mainnet can still be the centrepiece of that provided we advance the network ourselves with more urgency. Waiting for the elephant in the room has been what's holding us back.