Nah I don't think so. Are many others that do not love so much Bitcoin but they love money.
I think is more that Blockstream want to revive a dead project.
But ... you know what we say in Bitcoin
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I gather that Blockstream is rather chaotic internally. They employ a ton of smart, opinionated people, working on wildly different projects.