Well we have spoken a lot of time before to share more rewards with the bacup witnesses. For instance, instead of lowering the reward of the top 19, they could have just diluted a bit their compensation and add more backup places.

Decentralization should be seen as the resilience of the system. I think more people will realize that this is important with Steemit having to scale down. I might still run my witness until end of the year but beyond that I do't have any idea. My witness is operated at a loss since the very beginning. I don't think many people can do like me and loose time and money in this.