I don't think it's anything personal. It's just business. It's not an argument that can even be won. The buggy whip industry did not want to see the emergence of horseless carriages. Miners don't want to see the demise of mining.
Whether it's personal or not is irrelevant. My point is it's a vulnerability, a potential weakness and point of attack. The whole I
3 team should be well aware of the implications of the technology they're building, and who it will affect. Those are mighty powerful groups and I'd be shocked if those forces haven't been discussed or are considered too distant to worry about now. Perhaps so, but when then?
At some point the giants will awake and try to stop their discomfort. Is I
3's blindly gambling they can design a revolutionary tech, build it, test it, refine the design and get it marketed and adopted by enough people fast enough so it can't be stopped?
That depends on when the giants awake, and if BitShares has enough of the process completed to make squashing the irritation too costly or impractical.