The development team holds hundreds of millions of the crap. How do you think they plan to get out of it without losing it all? The firesale is going to be of epic proportions, so this is the predicament: They NEED the people holding and forging the NXT to maintain the network until ARDOR is implemented (IGNIS will require ARDOR support, not NXT), including of course themselves. They figure that the 0.5 x 1 in IGNIS plus the ICO will more than compensate them for the gigantic losses they are going to have getting rid of the millions of NXT, so they will do ANYTHING they can think of to avoid that people sell their NXT when they rightfully realize -like you have- that there's absolutely no purpose to it. So, they are willing to basically creating a "maintenance team" will all those millions from the ICO, to keep NXT active while they dedicate themselves to sell other projects (childchains) through Jellurida and maintain and update ARDOR.

It's all very devious and smart and has only one purpose: To make them money.

Other than speculating, to remain in this project at this time is just a ticket to get everything you deserve.