Well said @jongolson.
I maintain my own tribes and bought all the features to make it better for my project. Now, we do it again investing more not getting even from the previous investment.
Why not follow the same approach of HIVE airdropping the equivalent of from steem-engine to hive-engine so we can keep the service and let the users decide where they support. Some prefer to stay and some will go. We can't decide for them.
I do think that's a good idea...Not sure how things work on a legal standpoint, and that seems to be the issue...But airdrops happen all the time, and exchanges do it...Guess it's way above my pay grade lol