Dan is most probably leaving so he can't be made liable for the project dying as there is no way this project can get away with creating money out of thin air. He did the same with BTS and the charts don't lie.

How does he think money is created?

Did anyone not read the white paper. This why there is SBD in the first place, because steem is subjected to a certain yearly inflation. As far as i'm concerned, steem has done well to remain between $1 and $2. A currency with an unlimited supply will def be subjected to high yearly inflation. The cryptomarket is still young. With merely one million users, and steem being just a few years, why woukd anyone expect the price of steem to rocket? Steem is not driven as much by hype anymore but its ability to fulfill its realworld application. The coins you see skyrocketing hardly have any working applications, just pure FOMO and overhyped coins. Steemit is here to stay for the longterm. Lets see how the currency does in 4 to 5 years. I still don't undetstand while people are always chasing abitrary high profits without realising work has to be done to vack it up, otherwise it will come crashing down hard and fast. I'm looking towards steem being a stable currency with a value of $5 to $10.