Blaming BitShares problems solely on anti-socialism sounds like total BS, tbh. Even if there are a few bad apples, which I am sure there are, that wouldn't hold back the strong community that alongside time build itself around it. The thing with the Blockchain industry is that it's still very new. Hype and promotion still play the greatest key beneficiaries when it comes to people investing, the one thing that BitShares lacks a great deal of. Due to it being totally decentralized, being far ahead of its time, the industry just needs time to catch up to it. I estimate this year to be the start of the turnaround, where people start to comprehend and realize what it's actually capable of, this astonishing piece of technology. EOS being a big play in all of this. In quietness businesses are already building around the BitShares blockchain, which (hopefully) will bring forth a chain reaction and move it forward...
...to the moon and beyond!
I agree, the issues with BitShares predate this latest turmoil. Lest I be labeled as one of those "anti-social personalities" please consider that much of the animosity concerning BitShares began long ago, and the community wasn't effective at countering the FUD and defending the BitShares name. That's on ALL of us in the BitShares community.
As I posted in Telegram, there have been poor decisions made over the course of this project that have infuriated previous BitShares "partners" (Stans looser definition of partner used here). I've heard a handful of people report they weren't paid for work agreed to, or were screwed over by a sudden shift without warning. Some issues were only discovered in the last quarter of 2017 related to the STEALTH effort Bytemaster was in charge of just before he left to work on steem.
I have been around since 2014, and although I can indeed be harsh at times in my criticism, I believe Graphene technology is the best there is in the crypto space right now. I am optimistic about EOS in that Bytemaster is now in a role he is excellent at, while others take the lead on UI/UX, PR, marketing and business development.