Thank you for finding time to reply to my rather lengthy comment. :)

First off, that's awesome you even got an answer back from Ned.

Second, he may very well use it everyday but it is literally impossible to see everything on here, so anyway. Saying something like "I'm aware of what's going on" would have been good enough.

It is sad. I suppose, though, if this is meant to be a social experiment, with a hands off approach, to see where it might lead, that it all makes more sense. If it's not, then creating an environment where value can thrive would seem to be the order of the day.

Promises to fix the UI since 11-2016. Hmmmm. Okay. Well, so much for that, then. In hindsight, it probably served as a good indication where the UI wasn't going to go if it started out basically like this in the first place, rather than actually being more modern. I've not seen much interest being paid to it, but I've only been here actively since January.

I guess we're all that we've got. We're our only hope. I'm not ready to give up on me yet. :) Of course, I haven't been here so long that the amount of broken promises given reach the proverbial moon STEEM's supposed to reach, either.