Agree 100%. The devs saying they "support" this are doing so as a good faith gesture so they don't look like bad guys going against the "social consensus" (that was effectively eliminated upon the merger). And they know there's no way to completely eliminate PTS or someone else will just try to resurrect it all over again, so might as well support it. The devs even returned all PTS donated to them over the past year to show they no longer have any affiliation to PTS after ultimately buying them out with an airdrop of BTS. I cannot support alphaBar PTS as it is no longer indicative of the core BTS community whatsoever. BTS is where it's at.
So they are lying to us. They secretly hate this project but they are going out of their way to support it. TestZ, the custodian of PTS, is also lying about his support which he literally just posted immediately prior to your comment. Flawless logic!
The truth is that PTS has never been better positioned than it is today. As the interest in Bitcoin clones wanes, the Bitshares Toolkit is shaping up to be the choice implementation of the most innovative DACs. PTS is an investment in every future coin built on this technology. Why buy one coin when you can invest in the entire ecosystem?