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I am cool with that as long as the dev is not part of steemit inc team and is chosen by the community. Nothing against the current devs of steemit inc. I know a few and they are quite good.

After considering it more, and reading this comment, I realized that it's not about where the STEEM ends up at all. Just that it's not going to a post author. So that someone wouldn't feel like they were at a disadvantage for using a different front end service that rightfully charged a cut to make revenue from their creation. If there is no alternative solution, it may be necessary.