Well I would absolutly aggree that the governance over here might have other lacks.. Might be, I am not the one who has the big overview.
But I notice a long time ago, that steem has cartel structures. And at the beginning most people were not sure. But dude, Dictatorship is better? Come on, I would not say so. Absolut free space might have the 'bug' of pirating. But if so, I think free space is better then dictator ship. But well, we both can have two different opinions. Thats ok, no, thats great.
Lets remember the steemit (and hive) whitepaper. Do you member it says, the governance is democracy hybrid holacracy? So steem itself is not fallowing its OWN whitepaper... Mhhh 🤔, strange, isnt it?
If hive is that free space and it may be not THE solution of governance, its more fallowing the whitepaper then steem does! Think about it.
I can understand your skepticism. But pls stop offend over here and lets try to find THE REAL Solution! 😉
This is called politics, my friend.
Don't you mean four forks? There are also Whaleshares and Golos.