The messaging coming from Justin Sun/TRON regarding Steemit and Steem reads to me like a complete deprecation of the blockchain. They came out of the gate with imminent token swaps, moving forward with TRON blockchain-based tokens. Further communications including his open letter stick to this plan. Sun may have bought Steemit Inc. but he didn't buy Steem. This is why the witnesses took action.

I'd take Justin over Ned if he didn't seem so keen on imploding Steem and pretending like it will live on on TRON. The messaging points to that though.

I totally understand the desire to be optimistic and hope that all the best things for Steem would come true courtesy of Justin, but there's too much pointing in the other direction to ignore.

I wrote a post trying as best I could to set the context of the decision of so many witnesses to support the soft fork.