As more details have come out since this article, it seems more and more likely that the sybil attack was not planned. Seems that the whale manages a large amount of ATOM on behalf of numerous Japanese private investors they have brought in to crypto. These investors seem happy, but the whale has chosen to keep the airdrops they have received for themselves rather than passing them on to the investors.
I'm still a no vote, as I feel that old saying of "two wrongs don't make a right" applies - The airdrop should have been passed on, but it also should have been designed better in the first place.
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