Thank you for the detailed feed back.

This is my default position.

Yep. No doubt about that. You came to mind when I was typing that one.

This is certainly true for the top-20, and somewhat true for the top 30-40.

True. I will need to make some accommodation in my expectations depending upon the witness rank. It would not be reasonable to have the exact same expectations of a 60+ witness as a top-20 witness. But even at 60+, I still want to vote for witnesses who demonstrate an interest and aptitude for governance of the Steem technology.