Technically I can both go against what you said and still say I told you so. Because I started to say we needed to have more community efforts months ago. We can't rely on Steemit. Problem is that we haven't really organized the community when it comes to devs, other than people's personal projects. Of course, the efforts of teams that make larger projects like the alternative front-ends have helped tremendously...but does that mean we're all supposed to abandon Steemit? And how many of them have been helping with the Steem backend?

All those things that you mentioned are real issues. And Steemit has ignored them. Some of them are matters of opinion...but...still. Steemit abandoned us a long time before now. We should have started to organize the community a long time ago. But how does one even do that?

We need the developer witnesses with the most experience in open source to step forward and help us to organize Steem to get things done, so we don't rely on a single centralized company. We're supposed to be decentralized and we're not. That's part of the real reason we're in the toilet. We relied on a company that did let us down. But it was our fault for relying on them.