I am sure they can. as I said in my post these are my opinions on the matters at hand. With the recent attacks on upvote bots etc. Its easy for the "blame" to be misplaced. Not that I feel plan should be placed anywhere.
We just all must understand and play our roles. I think there is a happy medium we can all find where whales can make $ on posting, as well as spending the majority on increasing the value prop of STEEMIT as a platform and as a currency (thus doubly increasing their investment)