THORChain did not cave to any pressures. The dev's of THORswap, a centralized front end, shutdown their front end. THORChain has been active and remains active (although it has halted from majority node vote in the past and is certainly more centralized than BTC, but is likely at Hive's level of decentralization - 100 nodes). The central points of failure will be tested and ultimately weeded out. If THORswap can't take the heat... can Shapeshift? TrustWallet? AsgardEx? There are many other TC front ends.