I think this is long settled history and folks have made their choices to use one system, both or neither. Nothing that happens in the next few years is likely to change this one iota. Ryan was probably engaging in a little bit of humor, but with a nugget of truth. DCS's future is less certain than it was when MTH was a full line, full speed ahead train company, so it's also a little marketing hype. Hubris means excessive pride, so wishing Lionel to have more of this is probably not what was intended. I think humility is the asked for quality and it's always in short supply in the world.
My take on Ryan's comment, having witnessed the train wars and control system conflicts of the last 20 years is this is pretty mild stuff and not to be taken too seriously. Nothing Ryan or Lionel does or doesn't do is, in any case, going to affect the successful transition of DCS/PS3 to whatever is envisioned by the new company. There is exactly zero chance Lionel would choose to install PS3 or PSx in its locos. If MTH/DCS Is Us were to make their technology accessible to third parties, I'm sure Lionel would think about enabling TMCC/Legacy/LionChief to control PS3 and PS3 locos in command mode. That hasn't happened in the first 20 years of DCS, but who knows. Stay calm and carry on.
