I'm sure they all be able to stew in their own juices when people leave.
Most of the videos i watch on youtube never speak positive of steemit
Down voting is just censorship by another name.
They think #newsteem is great but downvoting people off the platform is not the way to go
If everyone who posted , posted quaity content (whatever that is) and never looked at other peoples post then the system would fall apart.
As for the 50% rewards. If people are not manually voting then they are just voting for ROI and not for the quality
But i guess it is what it is and you either make the best of it or you leave. Quite sad really