I feel you and it's hard to feel like we're going to 'lose' something - but we can gain from it too :-) 10 STEEM at 1$ or 1 STEEM at 10 dollar... It might just be that the changes are not really going to make so much of a difference.
Also, 7$ is never how I look at my payout. That's just stupid to keep on displaying Dollar payouts on for example steemit.com. Those 7$ are 15-20 STEEM which is huge, and if STEEM only went to ATH that means a huge payout for a post - you can't earn that at a 'real' paper magazine :-)
Anyway, not saying I know which way to go that is best, just trying to see as many perspectives as possible :-) If people start shit posting with lower payouts that's their problem, it might just be that some of the 'bidbot whales' start curating again and they won't upvote those shitpost?
