Love your post thanks for chiming in.
As for the airdrop part:
We can choose to see it as allowing the decision for those 300 accounts to be given to the community. So not as an "exclusion" more of a delay on decision and passing the decision on to that community that you were praising at the end.
@steempeak is willing to support our users that it affected and help promote their cause. There is some belief that those users aren't presently and maybe were never interested in the hive blockchain. But if they are we should help them out. There were plenty of Splinterlands users it affected we can rally behind... again, If they actually want to be a part of the Hive blockchain.