Another thing which wasn't mentioned is change of ownership. If new owners of Bitcointalk would be anti-Bitcoin and turn this forum into something like Bitcoin.com, there wouldn't be any reason for me to stay here.
I didn't think about that and it's a very good point. Would it make sense adding that to the poll at this stage, though? The number of available options keeps increasing.
I think that theymos already has a plan in case something happened to him or he just became tired of the forum. I really don't see it being auctioned off to the highest bidder. It will certainly get "inherited" by someone with a similar mindset.
Theymos would never auction this forum. I think this form will be taken care by the siblings of theymos. As with all the business, their ownership is never transferred to the external shareholders.