They would if they intended to move on. That would be hard after their renewed commitment to the platform, kinda. However the fork cohort have handed Ned the perfect PR cover for flip-flopping - they had decided to fork me out, so I had no choice to sell.
And here we all are, drumming up the source citations for the upcoming Coindesk article to go along with Ned's interview in 6 months about his new crypto venture.
Yep, threats are rarely better than direct action.
One more memory decrease and a fork will happen, imo.
Until then the infrastructure is too expensive.