This much has become crystal clear to me. The only person that cares at all about Truist now is Kelly King, and that is because it is an outward manifestation of his huge ego. Tacky purple, tacky lights, tacky logo - tacky man. Sadly, no teammates have any motivation to make this work; it has become so political that if you do try to make a difference, you become a target for “the other side”.
What is fascinating is it appears E14 cares about Truist even less than the employees. The executive team is now composed of: 1) people Kelly threw under the bus to get the merger done (HBBT execs just waiting to cash out), and 2) the HSTI group that considers HBBT country bumpkins, and are embarrassed to share a company name with them. What magnificent ingredients for a strong, competitive, technology bank. This is a slowly unfolding train wreck...holy cow...what keeps it from being uproariously funny is all of the wonder teammates who have been needlessly hurt.