Greatly helpful, well exposed and very informative post @mikeparker. :)
And yeah mate! your prediction is indeed pretty realistic. I certainly concur with you that they will lose 90% of their userbase in a jiffy. If they dare and insist in abandon the mass that made them great and now prefer to bow before the wrong side of the balance pleasing the greedy interests of the usual suspects minority.
And since my countrymen are actually a humongous bunch of die hard users of LB. I gotta resteem this post to let them know about these apparently bad news. ¡Upvoted! :)
Yes, a point I should have made. They're abandoning their own fans by springing this upon them; it's GOT to be government pressure. Let me edit my article with something else