as Cosmic Validator pointed out, it seems like AA already made arrangements for the chain and any discussion is a formality that is largely ignored. stride was given a grant to facilitate taking funds from the ATOM community pool before it was even accepted.
If stride cant thrive and establish its own demand, requiring a market to be created for it from ATOM, how will it ever be more than a liquidity parasite and centralization risk? The LSM also introduces regulatory risk as it makes a case for validators being broker-dealers, selling unregistered securities (illiquid derivative NFTs) to stride.