I agree witnesses have done a poor job on SBD. The problems are likely contributed to by issues with the design (including some early issues with the now-disabled liquidity rewards which complicated matters), but witnesses still could have done better. Since this issue came to light with Dan's post on supporting the peg, I have been doing my best to try to better understand and improve the situation, but it is a bit of too-little, too-late.
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It wasn't really, not from the start. That's why it was set up as a ninamine/fastmine. If they had wanted it to start decentralized they could have been more open about the launch and distributed most of the stake over a much longer period (months or years) instead of a few weeks more or less in secret.
It was intended to start centralized and may eventually become more decentralized as insiders and early miners sell off (and in the case of Steemit, give away) stake. That may have been a good plan, it may have been a bad plan, I can't really say. Either way, whatever you believe, don't thank (or blame) me, it wasn't my plan.