In this case I wish you were wrong, but unfortunately your are not.  Time to rethink the strategy and have a **hell of an idea of what this platform wants--and how to get it otherwise the 'moves' at the top are nothing more than for show.**  Get a clue of the game theory and behavior you want steemit to make up, then go from there.  Blindly tossing a 'tokenized social network' out to the sharks to devour and turn into a radioactive garbage heap sure wasn't the answer, but luckily the games and other dapps have come through for you finally and picked up a great deal of slack.  This needs to be available to sample for the masses, once they find out about and are given a chance to stay.  There is enough creative people in this ecosystem to make it work, but creativity, economic and game theory don't work the greatest under "tyrannical indifference."  Many of what you talk about @davemccoy has all happened verbatim how it's described by you in this post.  The key is bringing more or better, take that back ***better creativity and vision*** to overhaul the platform and become more proactive.  Steemit Inc is not at fault for the crypto meltdown but due to prior piss poor management it's getting passed by outright concepts that don't carry a fraction of the practical ability of what has happened recently.  So until the public gets wind of what's going on here we sit and watch the tumbleweeds roll through until fresh people replace the defectors and we as a community as a whole do a better job of keeping them around if at all possible.