Let me be clear

I'm definitely going to quit if the team isn't receptive. And that is entirely the right thing to do. I've been talking about the issues blocking dev work on steemit forever now. People don't want to have decentralized features of youtube, soundcloud, and image hosting?

OK.

What can I do about it?
Very little without direct assistance in navigating the steemit.com codebase. So....

If the team is receptive, steem market cap is headed to the

MOON.

This is the path to >1B USD / 1.3M BTC. Meaning: Why on earth would I leave the community if these features are implemented? There'd be no reason whatsoever-- I hold a reasonable amount of steem, and it could be worth a lot of money.

Anyway they're fair questions.

If you haven't developed software that interacts with steem, you may not understand the situation. That's OK though-- you don't have this problem, I do.

Let me be doubly clear

The real issue isn't money. It's collaboration.
And given what this is worth, I really don't mind asking for money at all. Money is for transmitting value, after all.