It is subjective but your wrong about the fact they just added Illawarra to their name, talk bout an understatement.
If we are going to go off that logic i would go the other way round and say the steelers added the St George and Dragons, the teams base is at Wollongong they provide more juniors too .
It was a 50% Merger not a takeover
Joint Venture, NOT a merger. Please understand the difference, they aren't just worded that way to sound clever.
A JV is an alliance that is not permanent and keeps both former parts intact, a merger is two existing entities forming one new entity thus creating new history and starting from scratch.
St George and Illawarra are a joint force in the one club whereas Wests and Balmain no longer exist in the top line but a separate new entity is formed.
Wests Tigers is neither Wests nor Balmain but a new permanent combination, St George Illawarra Dragons is both St George and Illawarra in their original form in an alliance.
Please tell me you understand this difference, because if you do then the rest should fall into place.