the eternal problem.
How does that affect you?
If you vote for witness, it doesn't affect you or your earnings.
If you don't vote for witness, it doesn't affect you or your earnings.
And once we get people to care about witnesses, they still have trouble finding information on them.
@tarekdam also had a recent post about witnesses which overlaps with some of what you wrote, and I shared some resources I've gathered along the way. I'm pasting them here in case they're useful (not endorsing any particular witness):
Now that helps! It is great to get some tools that checks what the witnesses are doing. I also think that there should be an official STEEM webpage that is updated by STEEM Inc that would include some of this information. This hands-off approach from STEEM Inc is not right.