The "devils advocate" first part misses that ISOC was already not operating .org, all of that was outsourced to Afilias, PIR was essentially a vehicle to pay so

The "devils advocate" first part misses that ISOC was already not operating .org, all of that was outsourced to Afilias, PIR was essentially a vehicle to pay some more graft to another set of musical chairs people that travel freely between ISOC, ICANN, PIR and Afilias.