When string theorists are out of luck, will Loop Quantum Gravity come to rescue?

Tl;dr: I don�t think they want rescuing.
String theorists and researchers working on loop quantum gravity (LQG) like to each point out how their own attempt to quantize gravity is better than the others�. In the end though, they�re both trying to achieve the same thing � consistently combining quantum field theory with gravity � and it is hard to pin down just exactly what makes strings and