I hope so too.

But as you may realise, I've been struggling with this for way too long, to just even bring it to the general population's attention that the necessary prerequisites for developing apps for this platform are so expensive that it rules out any kind of small enterprise.

The problem I see with not just throwing out the baby with the bathwater, is all those premined accounts, before, of what technically can be construed, in US law (and probably soon to be, in most legal lexicons) as securities. Any mined SP prior to the release of steemit.com is in violation of US securities laws. So, the bathwater is poison. How do we throw out the bathwater without throwing out the baby here? People clearly have ploughed a lot of money into this, and I would argue that they have had their stake intentionally diluted and thus milked by those who hold all that SP made before there was a real opportunity for anyone to acquire it through activities that are accessible to most people.

What I want to see, is a court ruling that says that they must return all of their earnings to a fund to see to it that the platform is built according to industry best practice standards and everyone's accounts returned to their full control. and all of the premined accounts deleted, and added to the rewards pool upon a well-in-advance-warned re-release. Sans Steemit, sans @berniesanders, sands @nextgencrypto sans everyone. It looks to me like officialfuzzy would have no issue losing the SP he didn't risk money or dedicate time to earning, either, so I'd think the only objectors to this plan, are the criminals who have been profiting, and using their power to manipulate everyone.

I tell you what. I am going to hold my nose and set up a steemd p2p node, and pull down the entire blockchain, with the raw_block plugin enabled, so I have a snapshot, and then go back to my old posts about how to pull out the raw json, and then set up a torrent seed with the raw json. As a starting point, for people to be able to then go through it, cut off the poisonous front end of the chain, calculate everyone's balances, the amount of SP that should go back into the rewards pool, and then, convert it back into the blockchain, and run Steemd, again, from a new site...

hell, it's not that hard. I don't know whether I am gonna be compensated well enough to justify doing this work but then, I am a big believer in non-monetary capital. I bet we can run a parallel chain with the correct edits done. Then we just need enough people to run witnesses and an instance of an appropriate client.

It's a lotta work, you know... But, wth. I may have got in this position of being able to, because of votes dished out from ill-gotten SP. So I am kinda obliged with this blood on my hands, in directly, to turn this to a good end.