I don't see this happening for a few reasons.
Steem and Tron are VERY different. It's a big question mark whether or not you even COULD make a Steem equivalent on Tron, as I mentioned, Tron has transaction fees(...)

Nope. You are wrong here my friend.

Related to transaction costs, Tron uses the same concept as steem (and eos):

What we call here 'Steem Power' they call 'Tron Power'. You stake Tron, you get the right to do a certain amount of transactions for free, based on how much is frozen.

But instead of 13 week, you can get your Tron liquid in 3 days, counting from the day you froze it.

It the same. What they don't have yet is a system to distribute a reward pool like we have here.

And since the code and the model is open source, it would be pretty easy for a team of Tron developers implement a token/contract that use the same rules of the steem blockchain.

They can't put steem to work on top of Tron, but they can copy the model.

Specially now, that steem developers can translate the code for them.

About putting heart and soul on a project, well... That's a bit romantic of your part.

At the end of the day, developers have to pay their bills, so they will comply with Tron plans or look for another job.