Larva Labs didn’t have to sell the Punks IP to Yuga. All they had to do was to release the IP and project to existing CryptoPunk holders. The community would have taken it from there. Money does really weird things to humans. If Larva Labs had made this simple change they would go down in NFT history as glorious innovators instead of sniveling little tightwads incapable of grasping the true nature of decentralized communities.
There is never a boring day in nfts.