As the price goes up, there's also a lot more incentive to abuse the system. Especially when very few people are downvoting even the most obvious abuse. We can expect to see more of what's rewarded, and those rewards also shift voting power creating long term momentum. I have no problem with high rewards for actual users and content creators, but I don't want to see the network overrun and destroyed by those who just want to harvest rewards without becoming a productive part of anything sustainable.
I think networks like Steem have the potential to disrupt the power of centralized social media giants and change countless lives for the better. That's why it bothers me to see so many colluding to upvote spam and share short term gains at the expense of Steem's future.
I'm with you 100% on this. Many of us can see the bigger picture for Steem and want to take it to the moon. We just don't need to bring each other down on the way there. Just need to focus on the valid abuse.
We'll get there.