So much hatred words in one post, and no numbers and usernames at all.
Let's compare two most influential authorities on Steem and on Golos:
@steemit: (71,439,457.115 + 1,434.590) / 262,525,279.696 = 27,21% of economy
@cyberfund: (6,936,227.579 + 1,673,266.167) / 131,427,278.594 = 6,55% of economy
This mathematically proves that Steem has much more centralization of authority than Golos.The active userbase of Steem is around 42000, while on Golos it's around 6000 (1/7 of Steem), which I believe is more that "50 circlejerkers".
The Golos capitalization is continuously growing so it's really hard to treat Golos as a "failed" project.
Also could you provide the usernames of those developers? I only heard about Golos doubled the size of the team over the last year.
Self voting and large steem power disparities or golos power disparities can be obfuscated with multiple accounts per user. It could be like 80% owned by Dan Larimer. How would we know? I don't think that's the case. It's only to illustrate the point.
There is quite a bit of flagging to reduce rewards and retaliations that go on on this chain.