There are still thousands of addresses to be swapped according to blockchain data. I hope this swap will be completed today by the day end as planned. Those reasons are understandable for what this swap is being done. What was remarkable thing in the article was own blockchain mentioning which explains all potential of future.
yeah right, I'm also very interested when Lympo plans to have own blockchain, and today Lympo has successfully performed the upgrade/swap of the old LYM token to a newer, You can read more here
https://medium.com/lympo-io/an-update-on-the-upgrade-swap-of-the-lym-token-7517bec28bbe