Your guess is a good as mine. The problem is lack of information on this one beyond statements on other social media, and the conversations with Steemit Inc. (before the devs resigned), the witnesses and others that contradicted all of that.
After that, things went sideways, so who knows what his intent is now. So far, there's been no moves to removed downvoting or change the power down window, which is either by design, or because he simply doesn't have the know how or manpower to do it yet. Haven't been to github to see what they might be working on.
In the meantime, while I have access to both, I wouldn't mind be able to leverage them both to build stake. Between the two, I'm pretty close to 25,000 HP/SP, which I think is pretty cool. :) Especially either or both can hold or improve their value.