I concur 100% with your position on EOS, especially regarding the divided loyalties of witnesses and witness candidates. I am happy to say I have never upvoted any competing crypto post here on steemit (or anywhere else) and never will, because I believe in total dedication to a project once you've set your shoulder to the load.
That having been said...we are going to get our lunch eaten soon by some startup if we don't improve the incentivization of quality content here, de-incentivize upvoting for poor content, stop malicious downvoting for people that do it purely for ideological reasons, and get a better distribution of new membership from a broader cross-section of the planet than we currently have.
Just saying...
For sure. Plenty of work remains here to improve this place so that Steem/it works for everyone. We'll get there.
I sure hope so. This place has AMAZING potential..and could be bigger than all the other social media platforms combined if we clean things up a bit.