Scale-ability is great moving forward, which is the reason it was done.

I am sorry, but HF20 was the worst timing or the best depending upon how you look at it.

I think that the timing exposes the fact that the steemit block chain was a part of all the other launching s of block chains. So usability was a problem for long enough for steemians to notice all the other block chains popping up everywhere just as those other block chains where coming on line. This means that steemians will be spending less time on steemit as they spend time finding out about all the rest. I don't think this will be easy to over look as it will have the effect of slowing down steemit's growth, precisely because of the cost in RC.

Whether it will have the desired effect of making crypto harder to shut down through numbers of users. I don't know? One thing that the internet needs is more systems for locating addresses. That is the second weakest link in the crypto market. I am not going to mention the greatest weakest link yet as I don't think we are ready to address it yet. I will say this the Scale-ability of HF20 does have diamonds in the rough. It is up to us to find the advantages that will make the difference down the road.