Nice recap. Wouldn't expect any less from you.
1. I don't think DMG cares about the comics except to link them to the movies.
“This is about taking it to the next level,” said DMG founder/CEO Dan Mintz. “I am not looking on expanding from a publishing standpoint but from a motion picture standpoint.”
Mintz said that "the plan is not to go in there and take apart what's working," and that Valiant's comic writers and artists will continue working - and expand to working more on film, television, and other platforms.
https://www.newsarama.com/38368-valiant-entertainment-sold.html?utm_source=nar-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180130-nar
2. I'm not sure how you can state that Dinesh wasn't worried about creating profits when they had so many incentive variants. And very high ratios for what their distribution was to boot.