>I just hope that who ever ends up winning the users are not the losers.

It might depend on how you look at it. 

>That they have learned that knee jerk reactions and economic sanctions do not, and never have, and never will work in the walking world or the typing/clicking world.

I don't think they have learned this. Part of crypto is that there is freedom of choice outside of the normal rules of the game.

>Nothing about SMT's

There was talk in the PAL discord about continuing development and release with the devs.