What this comes down to, more or less, is most of you are...

What this comes down to, more or less, is most of you are willing to introduce additional risk into a $550 mil deal that hasn't been smooth sailing, over a couple of few mil going out to KMPs. I was annoyed by it, but voting based on annoyance is unlikely to get me where I want to be. What should have been is gone, what's left is what is.

It's also not generally considering blackmail to leverage other job offers to get you a better deal at your current employer. One of the perks of being in demand.