Vitalik has been bought in by the corporate interests as much as Mike Hearn was.
If not yet, time will soon speak. So bottom line is ethereum as ETC will survive without him as much as bitcoin did without Hearn.
Let us move forward and get all the self serving interests out of the way of this block chain.
I have no specific interest in seeing Vitalik's glory being restored after such a major blunder he committed and playing to the interests of his close groups. There is no way he will not bend to the interests of the big corporate whales trying to cash in on this revolution with there newly minted coins and tokens like what happened with DAO.
He is just a human and that too immature at business or law.
It is better that Ethereum be run by a person like Satoshi who is invisible so as to be beyond any human fallibility and for this reason alone ETC ethereum classic is the answer and should be encouraged and promoted.