What if the nedsters whole purpose in this project was to get us to break free from controlling interests and fly off on our own...?

He primed us by making us mistrustful of any centralized authority, prepared us by inspiring the setup for the soft fork that may have saved the platform from being taken over by mr. golden sun, and then threw us into this scenario sink or swim style.

If we climb out the other side of this pool it may very well be as a much decentralized, community led, and much stronger/resilient platform.

That would be sweet. Good old Ned ;)