You know none of this is going to matter anytime soon with ViaBTC + Ver and friends blocking SegWit and potentially hard forking with BU...
If Antpool joins ViaBTC and starts mining BU then you can say goodbye to this potential rally
It all matters. Progress made here and there, bargaining and leverage and wait and see, progress, no progress,, and in the end, the various actions in the middle matter to get to whatever point we are going to get to.