This is how I view EIGEN and why I am actually happy with the airdrop.

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That's really great to hear. It always makes me a bit sad to see how people rally together to hate on good projects just because they expected a higher allocation of free money. 
Even more disappointing is when people actually even don't notice what the token can do and what the project wants to build.

The emotional outpourings are somewhat distasteful. I'm not down as a result of my participation and have been saved from pissing away my Eth frivolously. As an enjoyer of new things I'm in agreement.

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Completely agree. I am actually not really surprised by their decisions and I think that most of them were correct.

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I haven't read too deeply into all documents, just heard the recent live stream. I can understand that farmers and bot herders are upset, but hey... Eigenlayer always felt and feel like building for the long term.

A "regular" claim and dump drop would have been off brand and reputation.

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Sure, I think that it is correct and EigenLayer team also mentioned that. What I view as innovative is the combination of EigenLayer and Ethereum consensus and leveraging that for securing services where slashing cannot be really done just based on the parametrs specified in the code.

On the non-transferability note, I think that they just want to give people time to learn about the mechanism. If you allow trading from get-go, just a few people will care about what the token does. 
However, if you unlock options one by one, people has less things to decide about. 
Staking->delegating->trading...

I somewhat disagree with the second part. Forking tokens aren't new, the EIGEN whitepaper discusses Augur's REP, which is 8y old.

All of the forking happens at the bEIGEN level, so even if forking was a total unknown space, EIGEN is fully isolated from the mechanism.

Non-transferability is a pure market making move.

I appreciate your take.  Thanks for sharing.