Good philosophy! See you on the battlefield instead of in a hateful comment section!
I feel partially bad for the folks who aren't included in it but if you make a choice, stick with it. The game and environment will move on with or without those players. There is a strong backing in plenty of other countries around the world that didn't make the same choices.
There nothing particularly injurious to those excluded from the airdrop about Splinterlands moving to Hive. Since Splinterlands is delegating Hive Power to cover gameplay bandwidth, the migration is not forcing users to support the Hive network in a major way.
Yup, absolutely. You don't have to do a single thing on the Hive social media environment if you don't want to, and many won't. Don't get mad at the Splinterlands team for choosing superior connectivity and power versus mediocre at best. I've experienced perhaps 50 battles where the Steem chain had poor performance and it rejected my battle and made me lose simply because the Steem blockchain has poor performance. As a platform owner/developer, I would be pissed and immediately explore other options. They knew they didn't have to look far at all because when the current Hive witnesses were running Steem, there wasn't any performance issues at all besides the ones around HF21.