Then the Devs then announced that they were going to sink the island because they didn't like the Cagilan-Taran alliance. 
That is a very disingenuous interpretation of what happened. No decision was made because anyone didn't like the alliance. The issue was that what you did in Atamara came too late and should've happened years earlier. Our decision to sink Atamara was made before the any Continental civil war happened.
