- because a track record exists of securing the data since November of 2013.
- because the whole point of the network is persistent storage.
A fork of the network starting life by saying "let's delete all of the persistent storage" is going to attract no one.
May be it is a necessary sacrifice for make dtc alive.
May be such sacrifice is better than death of dtc.
May be such sacrifice is better to be made now, than later.
And new we can store all of old data in new blockchain with ordinary saving data procedure. Miners can make it. They will pay commission, but they get this commission back while mining correspondent storage blocks.
I don't sure all of it. But it is a big doubts.