No it wasnt always.
Another piece of your analogy. Think back of the LINUX history, how may directions did it go in. Like Hive, it was going a thousand different ways at one time.
Yet, in the end, that created an even more robust system as more solutions were rolled out.
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For sure! You could even go as far as to point out that Linux was born from Unix, but I don't think I would compare STEEM to Unix in any way shape or form :)