I miss the good ol' days of BitShares...Stan's pump posts (are we still on for this summer? :P)...excitement on the BitSharesTalk forums at the innumerable future possibilities (remember the possible Ethereum partnership thread? lol)...tonyk, ander, method-x, et al...

There is more than just "talking" about the project: Actual work. And
there are many parties still heavily working on improving bitshares.

I am sure that if CNX had the funds that Ethereum had, then they could
handle the development load for Steem and BitShares all together, but it
seems they currently can't. Anyway, I don't see this as an issue as
BitShares is a great product as it stands, it just needs more utility
and awareness.