You have an EXPECTATION about this being the final nail in the coffin. Am I correct here?
What I am a saying is that the LBS has the final say in the relationship, even though it does not seem that way right now.
How long will that take? - I have no clue.
You have heard about a script that they follow? Part of that script is that the relationship must be totally destroyed by them in order for them to progress to where they think that they want to be. You have read about cheeseless tunnels? Well they must go down every one of them searching for cheese.
So our task is to not enable them to destroy our portion of the relationship. For us not to follow them down cheeseless tunnels. For us to control our 50%, and not let them destroy us!
Last suggestion. Start a new thread and we can discuss this further.