I add one more differense.
read about it in details here:
https://www.palnet.io/palnet/@lyndsaybowes/viewing-the-steem-blockchain-through-pal-coloured-glasses

as for my personal experience, I dont want to tell a lot yet. I may say, it havent settled down yet. but probably - its a decent effort, an experiment, to establish more decent ground beneth the foot, figurally speaking, as steemit becoming a rotten paddle...