I think it was a given that some of the pre-Justin days would continue here as the power players from before are actually more powerful now that their stake power isn't diluted by Steemit and the others who made it onto their blacklist.
I could live for the most part with the system we had before. I can't say that's the case for the new normal under Justin, nor his statements on where Steem is headed (destroyed and merged into a Tron token). I guess part of what doesn't add up for me is why Justin even bought Steemit if his intentions were to destroy the chain it rested on and make it sit atop his. Would have made more sense just to pay developers to sit a new one on his.
Your guess is a good as mine. The problem is lack of information on this one beyond statements on other social media, and the conversations with Steemit Inc. (before the devs resigned), the witnesses and others that contradicted all of that.
After that, things went sideways, so who knows what his intent is now. So far, there's been no moves to removed downvoting or change the power down window, which is either by design, or because he simply doesn't have the know how or manpower to do it yet. Haven't been to github to see what they might be working on.
In the meantime, while I have access to both, I wouldn't mind be able to leverage them both to build stake. Between the two, I'm pretty close to 25,000 HP/SP, which I think is pretty cool. :) Especially either or both can hold or improve their value.