Exactly true.
What the geniuses running the show never seem capable of comprehending is that STEEM/Steemit is about genetic code, not computer code. If someone walked up to you on the street and slapped your face ... you are going to respond in kind. A functional blockchain has to be designed around "how people are," not "how you'd like them to be." This has been the Achilles Heel of every Utopian political ideology in history ... including that which underpins cryptocurrencies, Anarchism.
Quill
Those at the top have spoken, what can we do down below
@fredkese,
I have been writing for some time that a Day of Reckoning is fast approaching. Wars happen because the conditions for war ... exist. And nothing offends human sensibilities more quickly than the feeling of being cheated. I explain this phenomenon is great detail in: https://steemit.com/steemit/@quillfire/central-premise-and-proposals-a-series-about-fixing-steemit-part-4
It's not the change from 75/25 to 50/50 per se that's the problem (professional curation is every bit as important as quality content creation). The problem is what did not occur simultaneous to said reduction ... bidbots were not banned. If anything, the system is now more gameable by those with fat wallets and a willingness to self-deal.
And, the new downvoting regimen will not have the intended effect ... Whale Wars never have a lasting curative effect and Minnows downvoting Whales, for whatever reason, constitutes blockchain suicide.
STEEM/Steemit has become corrupted to the core. For Heaven's sake, look how many Witnesses own or delegate to bidbots ... the antithesis of merit-based curation. Cheating has become institutionalized and those who ought to be responsible for policing against it are instead its greatest perpetrators.
Up to this point, STEEM/Steemit has gotten away with murder because a viable alternative didn't exist. Monopoly obviates the need to be competitive.
But @dan, the guy who technically built STEEM/Steemit, left and constructed EOS. In the process, he raised USD $4 billion, most of which remains unspent. His development company, BlockOne will be launching "Voice" on September 23 (or very soon thereafter).
Voice is often billed as "Steemit 2.0" but I would argue it would be more accurately called the "anti-Steemit." Instead of replicating Steemit, it is clear that Voice's design reflects a strong desire to prevent the systemic problems that plague Steemit.
Once an alternative exists, we shall see who needs who more, the Minnows or the Whales ... the customers or the shareholders.
Quill
About the bidbots, there are some witnesses who are downvoting 'unworthy' posts that have been promoted with bidbots since the hard fork. About Voice, some people don't want to use their credentials to sign up, so steemit has an advantage there. Do you believe people will completely move from steemit when there's an alternative?