Interesting. I'm on the other side personally, timcliff was the only witness who didn't support 0.22.2 that kept my vote.

I believe that was the correct move, in response to everything that had been said & published by Justin & Tron to that point. The fact that his response was to bring in custodial funds and hostile take-over our governance after saying he wanted to talk and setting up a meeting, makes it clear that JS is a bad actor, and we were correct to treat him as such.

the STEEM blockchain may not have begun descending into shards of itself.

Not sure what you're talking about here? The community is more active & connected than at literally any point in the 4 years we've been here, and this HF was long-needed. I'm just glad this ridiculous situation was finally the kick in the butt that the Steem community needed to make the move.