During the 4 years during which Steemit inc was in charge of code management, we never witnessed improvements of this magnitude, quite the opposite.
I'm really impressed with the optimization work that has been done lately. Kudos!
Hardforks are less frequent and sometimes delayed, but I feel much more confident about their stability and the benefits they will provide for the future of Hive.
they weren't calked Stinc for nothing :P