I don’t care which ship toi sail on; toi need to take a step back and look at Elena’s situation objectively. She can’t totally abandon ship (pun not intended, I swear) until she knows there’s no chance of getting back what they once had.
There’s a lot that happened in that moment, and season 3 is gonna be about exploring what it means to her, what it means to Damon, and certainly what it means to the Damon-Elena-Stefan relationship.