There is a reason Richard allowed bitcoiners to claim hex
Yes, of course. The reason is that it cost him nothing to create the tokens out of thin air, just like bch/bsv and other "airdropped" garbage, except he made the token number larger because why not.
There is no innovation here. POS crap that forces bagholders to lock their coins in hopes of making the price go up, like any other POS crap out there.