Great article and summary.
I Believe he did not do enough due diligence and thought it was "another pretending decentralized blockchain". Unfortunately for him it was not, STEEM is really decentralized and involves thousands of REAL users.
We need to continue the GET OUT AND VOTE Campaign as you said !
I am with you on this and have been rallying a lot on Twitter and STEEM
i.e my last article: https://steempeak.com/steem/@vlemon/steemians-the-fight-is-not-over-we-need-you-to-get-our-witnesses-back-to-the-top