I see the community as becoming more powerful, look at all the attempts to change the witness selection/retention system, on steem all attempts were ignored and the full stake weight stayed in place and the witnesses became entrenched, until 2020.
Next hardfork for Hive will try and resolve this, that votes will decay, and people will/may have to vote on a semi regular basis for witnesses. The removal of dead votes may not have a big effect on the witness retention at the start, but after awhile I personally think it will have a real effect thus legitimizing the witness as those that have been selected by the active community, not the dead community.
Yep, I think it will take time to have an impact, but it will keep it all a little more dynamic, without being volatile.
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