So... what's the REAL lowdown here?

Contrary to initial 'optimisim' is AlphaBay really dead now, or still coming back, or likely to be a honeypot now, or gonna be suspected to be honeypot and DEAD anyway, even IF it does attempt to come back 'legitimately'...?

Personally I've never been on it, no interest in shopping for what's sold there at all, but I'm still interested overall in its existence INSOFAR AS IT HELPS MONERO GET A GOOD FOOTHOLD FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD WHO ALSO NEEDS FUNGIBILITY IN OUR FUTURE DIGITAL CRYPTO!!!

Seems like the people replying in the alphabay reddit clear-net sub, to the poster saying it's an exit scam for sure, are being knee-jerk hostile perhaps only because they do not want to believe it's true... "whistling past the graveyard" as it were...?

Or, on the other hand, it also occurred to me that the guy who is SAYING he was able to DOXX the site operator via tracking a bitcoin payment from cold storage address, to his exchange account and real identity, MAY BE JUST A COVER STORY TO PUT PEOPLE OFF THE SCENT OF A.B. BEING TAKEN DOWN, IN FACT, BY THE ZCASH BACK-DOOR...

Hmm... hmm indeed...