I agree on most of this, yes. I will say though that it is 100% clear to me that total culture change is needed at Steemit Inc. regarding the topics you raised here. We apparently long ago passed the point where community willingness to code and support the project exceeded the willingness on the part of the Steem team to even communicate with the community on the issue.. And so little has moved in that regard. Without going into the motivations for that, the outcome is the same - Decentralisation needs to occur more than it has done previously. I will be communicating more with C++ coders here to negotiate possible paths onward - it would be great if Steemit inc. participated too.