Well, you're not wrong (you rarely are. Don't let that go to your head) but there are ways to create incentive or to discourage counterproductive actions. Enabling substantial stake to extract rewards that should be marketing Steem is counterproductive to capital gains and investment that strives to increase the value of the investment vehicle. That's generally how stocks work. But the example I gave is not a fluke, and real world higher ROI can be attainable by selling the parts. Market conditions, or fraud, can create such situations.

You could buy stock in companies today that physically possess more cash than their market cap. If you took a controlling interest and just dissoved the company and disbursed the cash to stockholders, you'd profit. Most investors don't do that, because such conditions are usually temporary, and companies with that much cash almost always become more productive of profitable returns over the long run.

If you do need to sell, I hope you catch a bounce. Steem could be doing all kinds of things. The optics of them powering down right now aren't good, particularly without some kind of statement indicating they aren't selling. I hope @yabapmatt and others posts pointing out that EIP is not a good idea gain traction and keep it from being undertaken, but given the extant code and history of such debates, I agree with him that EIP is most likely to be implemented.

I'm agin' it, but who cares.