I'm really sad to hear this. It seems like bitcoin faces such tremendous headwinds.
Surely, I do not understand enough to understand the significance of your comments.
Do you believe that theymos and Cøbra should have attempted to maintain a connection between the sites or the operations?
theymos does seem to be representing it as NOT a big change, but it is likely with anything that sometimes material changes will come later or be felt later if some kind of dynamics are changed including each of their having official connections versus separate operations.