But I believe Justin Sun did the community a favor by motivating it to get a huge monkey off its back: the Steemit Inc ninja-mined stake.

I think that's the real take-away. While I wasn't onboard with how this was handled, at least that "lynchpin" has been taken off the table. And I've admitted before that I'm not sure the Hive launch would have done as well as it did without all the drama and turmoil.