This has been their intention from day one, and it is patently obvious to anyone with eyes to see. Why would any true Christian believer stay within the "bonds of affection" of the ECUSA? I just don't understand it.
I understand it's hard for non-Anglicans to understand this, but it's not the "bonds of affection", it's really our identity. To one who is raised Anglican, part of that is being a member of the world-wide Anglican Communion. That is simply part of who we are; I am guessing (at a rathe rlate hour of an exhausting day for me) in ways not much different from being under the Magisterium for a Roman Catholic.
Events in the Anglican Communion's wealthiest church, and some of her hangers-on, have masked the corrective mechanisms that exist in the AC. Granted, they do not have the power to act swiftly or powerfully. But they still exist, though they work slowly.
I left ECUSA many years ago. It was agonizing -- similar, perhaps, to climbing into a lifeboat when the grand liner is going down. But I left (personal situation) with hope of someday "returning home" to the Anglican Communion. One can be thoroughly Anglican outside of the wwAC, but.. like an "imdependent" Roman Catholic, there's no check or correction. This is not a good thing.
Robinson and Griswold are persona non grata out here.