Not just this -- i know some "users" with larger stake and they starting to transfer to new users, friends - business partners - on the other side:

I was reading many complaints about the centralization on this game here - now look at the "POWER downs" - This also means - Whales won't have so much influence - From what i can observe - slowly but steady we will see by far more new larger stakeholders and it will get much more fairer "holding" distribution - not that i'm thinking the current distribution is "unfair".

Even u may should take into consideration, that on STEEM u are able to see all the "wealth" a user is [HODL] – ( Hold On for Dear Life ) not like facebook & Co. !

Is this essentially good or bad?

I can just speak for myself but i love the transparent way
of how things are going here ;) - my 2 SBD