As I said, I see things different than you.

For example, in general I wouldn't call it abuse to "extract" own money.

Yes, yes, there were some early miners, but that was even before I joined STEEM (and I am here since three years already). Since then nearly everybody, including some of the early miners, who didn't leave STEEM, suffered huge losses.
I myself doubled the amount of STEEM I own, but its value decreased dramatically.

I don't think that most stakeholders are having bad intentions, but unintentionally they are acting shortsightedly.

And the devs are by far not the biggest earners here.