If you simply step aside from the Drama and use simple reasoning skills, you will see that a fundamental change needs to occur to this ICO to keep everyone protected.
For quite some time BitCoinDark has been advertised with Telepods, Telepathy, Teleport, RamChains, 5/5/5 (SuperNET / Iguana fees / divs) and hence the basis for many investors of BTCD.. If Zero Cash (ZKP) is as good or better than Teleport/Telepathy and easier to implement (since it's already written), than ZKP really needs to occur to BitCoinDark apart from new Komodo ICO. It sounds like the 5/5/5 has been preserved for BTCD Holders separate from Komodo, but not the Anonymity factor.
Hence, the Anonymity factor is effectively an obligation to BitCoinDark, separate from Komodo.
Plus, all the noise appears to be about costs related to dPOW, Notaries, and expensive servers - so it makes even more sense to separate ZKP from the Komodo ICO.
With the ZKP anonymity factor BitCoinDark would very likely shoot up in MarketCap (Monero / Dash / Shadow). It would also have a silencing effect to all the FUD/Critics of JL777 not completing projects, Lastly, it would provide more revenue from long term SuperNET/BitCoinDark/Iguana investors infused into the Komodo Project. A Win-Win-Win situation.
Examples of what has been promoted as a basis for Bitcoindark investment:
http://bitcoindark.wikia.com/wiki/BitcoinDark_Wikihttps://medium.com/@Bitfirmio/instantdex-and-anonymity-b6523f697a4d#.jrd01tyuwhttp://wiki.supernet.org/wiki/Teleporthttps://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoindarks-teleport-technology-aims-to-make-cryptocurrencies-truly-untraceable