Ned sold his stake to Justin Sun.
The former witnesses didn't like that so they froze his stake, in a undiscussed private softfork
Justin Sun didn't like that so he voted in his own witnesses
There was a temporary stand off.
The hive team made a copy and a hardfork over to hive.
They continued to farm, troll and harrass users on steem
SteemIt inc did a hardfork nulling their stake.

Now there is a HIVE and a Steem, people are expected to choose sides, but you don't have to.

DPOS has been compromised in different ways by both teams.