Hi @belemo,
great points in your article. Upon the announcement, I bought more SPS right away. It is clever of the team to reel in existing players with the incentive to earn the new token by accumulating more SPS and staking it. That helps stabilize the SPS price and gives early adopters like ourselves a slight advantage over new players, who enter the space around the release date.
I'm very excited, because I not only love the Splinterlands/Hive ecosystem, I was an avid football player and a football manager player in the Commodore 64/Atari/PC days and hope, to relive my glory days :o).