Another of Pal's massive benefits is that it has encouraged users to look both use and look at other tokens in Steem Engine. Creating our own Blockchain based markets can only be a positive thing for Steem and Crypto in general.

The thing that has turned me against this hardfork is the Steem DAO thing. Taking it directly and totally from the creators reward pot is wrong. Add to this the reduction to 50/50 model which I was in favour of and works in PAL then the hit becomes greater. Add more deductions if you post using a DApp that also takes a % nibbles a further lump off.
This is going to discourage DApp use and discourage Devs to create more DApps knowing people will be less likely to use them.

This is a bit like UK politicians announcing spending cuts whilst awarding themselves pay rises!

I was in favour of the HF, not any more. I will not have any influence in this as I will not have any influence in the allocation of funds from the worker proposal fund so who cares about the posts and their explanations .Many of us also have zero influence on the top 20 witnesses so why bother voting for any of them? We don't even know most of them or where they stand on the issue but as it makes no difference anyway, that's fine too. The whole attempt at transparency and explaining to the masses is little more than paying us lip service. Most of them couldn't even be arsed completing the witness survey last year. That's the sort of contempt with which they hold users to.

Have a great weekend and try and keep dry :-)