My thinking all along with the World Tour and the Pro Tour is that they were no different than any other regional/state "tour" or "series" that has (co-)existed with the PDGA for years. From the PDGA point of view, how are those two tours fundamentally different than a pick-your-state series? I don't recall the PDGA allowing directors of any random state series to have a seat at the table and a voice in determining scheduling. So from that perspective, the demands of Steve or Jussi to be given that privilege seems presumptuous at best.
I told Steve this in a conversation last year just after he'd announced the DGPT. I told him what I imagined his tour would do in the first few years is unite an assortment of PDGA events of varying sanction (NTs and A-tiers as it turned out) and make them a cohesive unit of similar events that would slowly and gradually expand to a TOUR run efficiently and successfully enough to rival or surpass anything that the PDGA does with the current NT. And at that point, the PDGA folks would likely disband the NT all together in favor of letting the DGPT or the DGWT or perhaps a combination of the two take the reigns of servicing the elite level of pro competition. Steve seems to be more interested in forcing such an outcome rather than let it come organically.
Seems to me the best form of compromise in the short-term is for the DGPT to sanction every one of their events as a B-tier. They'd be able to offer the ratings and points that many players will want, but also have the freedom to not have to have their dates approved to fit into any sort of PDGA dictated schedule like Majors, NTs, and A-tiers must. Make the DGPT events just as big and prestigious as ever, with far less PDGA "interference" and run with it. In five years, if the growth happens the way Steve seems to envision it, then the power play to push the PDGA out of the elite level event game (i.e. the NT) would have a bit more oomph. This all seems a bit premature and perhaps motivated by bruised egos in not being given the authority they think they deserve but haven't really earned.