Their stake is their's, they can dump it and leave at any time.

Where the rub is is that the pool is a commons.
If they take from the pool all that is their right to take they make the game unattractive to outsiders.
Killing adoption affects us all.
That is how we lost proof of brain.
The greedy whales were killing off too much adoption even for stinc's insatiable appetite.
Now those same greedy whales have done exactly the same thing for 2+ years under proof of wallet.

Instead of the community regulating behaviors that harm the ecosystem stinc, et al, forced proof of wallet on us and called it all better.
Now their fragile egos will never admit their mistakes.

If the well being of the greedy whales is our prime concern is it any wonder that 1.5 million accounts have told us to get bent?

And, are you and i just making it possible to drag out the sham a little longer by encouraging waiting and seeing if they make a break for the exits?
I sure hope not.