I think as a business decision it makes no sense to kill Steem, when both blockchains can come out stronger, especially when he owns so much Steem currently.
Why kill something you just invested so much money in, unless it will make the original company somehow stronger. I don't see how killing Steem now makes Tron stronger.
I'm looking forward to the future as I have a feeling that this will go down like the fork wars did in Bitcoin. Something that makes Steem come out stronger.
Maybe he thought people would happily give up their steem for some new tron token in which the future steemit would run on? (but it would only make sense if the majority users are thinking "steemit = steem")
Basically its an investment for him to increase tron users?
After seeing the livestream i feel like justin is flexible enough to change his original plan and let steem and tron run separately.
Maybe now steemit would get you steem and tron? Who knows.
now we know justin is back to his "original plan"
we're not that lucky lol