Shall be an interesting experiment and I hope someone will detail the strengths and weaknesses of it.

I'm glad you've found a way to stick around for a bit, and I think the strategy is better, there is no sense in "exposing DPOS" for being DPOS.

But there is a lot of sense, in creating some thing new of value, which there is a market for and making the enduser less reliant on the old guard.

With the success and financial maturity of several projects there is a powershift happening that not many see yet. Keep watching, you'll spot it.