I think that the real shame was that it wasn't possible to use both. Ie, a windows client for you all who use that stuff, but mavens or old seals android or whatever it was for the rest of us. I know I stil haven't been able to find a regular bigcoin poker game in 2015 because of this.
Yeah, I agree that it sucks they weren't able to do that.
I think the original plan was just what you said... they wanted to continue running the old SealsWithClubs as a separate site while they built, tested and launched SwC Poker. And then when SwC was fully ready to stand on it's own, with all the platforms built, they'd be able to retire Mavens and move everyone to SwC.
But when they decided to close Seals their message said they couldn't trust the old Seals 1.0 software going forward due to "a number of operational and security considerations". So they weren't able to pass that off to the new team to use with SwC.
Even though I'm already on myself I'm still looking forward to you and everyone else being able to get back on. We're going to have to have a party or something to celebrate when the day comes.