I think we need to understand how witnesses work better. Do witnesses as for community opinion before stopping an impending attack? No. Time and time again in my stay of this blockchain the witnesses have secured the blockchain from external attacks and our opinion haven't been sorted. 

Witnesses are voted for to take actions on our behalf, we might not agree with individual witness, I certainly didn't, but the top 20 are those with the most number of votes. We might not agree with their actions but as long as the majority wins the vote they act accordingly. Members have the right not to vote for a witness, but at the end of the day, the top 20 witness are those who most members of the community have voted for to act on their behalf in securing the blockchain.

The argument that we were not contacting before doing the softfork does not hold water, as already mentioned, they are there acting on our behalf, we may not like it but that is how it works.

- JS was contacted but ignored the witness.
- JS had acted using his vote to interfere in Governance in his own Tron which means he can do the same with Steem. 
- His stake wasn't stolen but frozen pending when he clarifies what he plans to do with the Steem stake.

Based on JS actions now, it is totally clear that the witnesses acted in our best interest. 

We are transiting to Hive, it is better whatever actions we take, we should have an open mind. Cheers mate.