"...he stays and doesn't screw himself over..."

Too late. He's dispelled the illusion of decentralization. I consider him voluntarily executing code that prevents him exercising governance, the exchanges also doing so, and a HF preventing hodling of stake nominal to that purpose being undertaken, highly unlikely.

Presently Steem is kill. It could come back to life, but so could any corpse with equal likelihood IMHO.

If we don't fork now and migrate, the community is kill too.

Thanks!