After HF20, many things have been changed.
First of all, a voting amount is increased even if the steem price is going down.
It is weird.
Next thing is there is a new concept of resource usage, called RC.
I do not know exactly what the RC is, but it requires too much RC when we are doing something in steemit.
This is not good for newbies, because they do not have enough SP.
It may a reason to change like this, but I am not satisfied with this change. I am in doubt about the future of Steemit.com.
I agree with you, the future of steemit.com is looking more doubtful as interest in the site wanes. It has come down to a lot of small circles of people voting amongst themselves and not creating much value outside of this site. Unless something changes and there is a renewed interest I seem the price of steem dropping and essentially steemit becoming demonetized.
It's sad story. Ned shoud know this and I want to know his invision on steemit.