I SHALL QUOTE LUKE:

"BECAUSE IT"S OUR BLOCKCHAIN!"

https://steemit.com/witness-category/@lukestokes/eos-is-alive-object-computing-steem

Let's just start doing the dev ourselves... ;-)

And I really have to say, if community development is not allowed to thrive on Steem, even on the backend platform, then it will be a real vote of confidence we need to move onto other platforms in the future...