You are spot on this and its among the reasons i voted you among my witnesses and i will be editing my list soon!
This thing of being called beta forever ain't good and some people are investing here a lot of money and people have lost almost a week's time of business!
And he's absolutely right with everything in there, it's common sense to not let practically untested changes go into a live network people and businesses rely on.
I am assuming if we had like 2m active people here and we have all these mess,it would send negative messages about Steem to the crypto world and yet we want to attract the crypto world here...These temporary stops on th blockchain should stop for the betterment of Steem.