I'll try to address some of your concerns, not because I know sure what will happen, but because I used to work analyzing scenarios give certain parameters to hold true 😏

About @misterdelegation, I think a small chunk will be forwarded to boost Korean witnesses and the rest will be powered down, on time our friend Justin will power down the whole thing since the ultimate goal is to swap the Steem tokens to the Tron blockchain... I dunno if Justin seriously wants to compete with Dan's voice, but what I foresee for this place is to be assimilated by the Tron blockchain and have a tr20 token for a blogging Steemit on Tron... What about the other dapps? Well, Splinterslands already has some support for Tron and ETH users... I think the most clever thing that the ones running these dapps can do is to offer support to a even broader range of cryptos and simultaneously offer a massive advantage to Hive holders, that would create incentive for people on other platforms to drive value into Hive. In that sense, Hiveans dapps can do the role of some exchanges via ETH/BTC/TRON-STEEM/$ ➡️dapps products & services➡️Hive

About what I personally want to do... I like your idea of crossposting, but I have no big friends to circle jerk with 😂, also my stake is so small... Selfvoting my post would give me almost nothing. So if you want a buddy with whom abuse the Steem blockchain with let me know 😂😂

About the Steem price, I think that over 40% of liquida Steem on exchanges are actually under Justin's (formerly Ned's) grasp, I think they moved enough coins there to be able to dump when the price rose, right now Justin is just moving that Steem back to the platform, not to grant instant porwer down to everyone (most likely only to his accounts), but to enable the swap to happen...I think he laid the foundation to this scenario by labeling the former witnesses as hackers, now everyone who oppose his actions will be labeled as part of the bad witnesses faction and his/her opinion totally discarded.

I think Justin's (or his team) is smart enough to realize that if they allow instant power downs, there will be insane selling pressure, I think he will hype the new Tron-Steem and then merging it with Tron (if not he will pump old Steem and then dump it into Oblivion lol)

You want old witnesses to keep on the fight on the old Steem platform, why would they?? The only way to outweight Justin I by having 51% of the Steem supply... Why would they buy more Steem if it's more likely to be Justin the one selling it? Besides, in most of the old top witnesses perspective, when Steemit lose his old developers and the Steem blockchain lost the support of most of the western community, the Steem token lost most of their value (no core technology developers, no userbase).

About the price, I think you are narrowing the sight about how the price is determining only to pure speculation on exchanges, I think that if Steem had managed to become an utility token, then it would have a more solid base price... I think that witnesses behind Hive will deploy SMT very fast, and more dapps will be released with their own SMT. If those dapps are successful or not is an issue remain to be seen, but I think they will remove the Hive rewardpool as soon as possible and let each community to earn blogging rewards, gaming rewards, etc from each SMT reward pool.

Lastly, about Steem-engine... I think that they just will point the side-chain to the Hive blockchain, and have Hive pegged instead of Steem pegged. (But I got a feeling that aggroed and some others will be around the old blockchain for some time though, he might be willing to bully some Tron folks or Koreans, hopefully I'm wrong, but have you seen Bernie spamming Justin's post? He can turn your comment feed into a shit pile lol)