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I'm hopeful it will be released steadily and carefully at the right time, too much to soon may not be a good plan but perhaps there will be some going to the communities that are working well.

I think there is a big potential that they will do a partial clawback of what is delegated to some of the apps, maybe leaving more for those who have been developing their apps the most and using their delegations efficiently, and then a distribution to some of the fastest growing/strongest communities that pop up to spur interest in the user-side of things after the apps have been given some time to mature. I do not think they want the apps to collapse completely in the absence of their delegations, however, because undoubtedly many users and communities will continue to rely on their use.

Yes this makes sense and could well happen once the apps have 'enough' SP to adequately reward on their own.

I agree with the communities aspect - much development work has seemingly gone into this, and so it would make sense to give it a 'push'.

Cheers

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.