Glad you wrote finally a new post. You do have my 100% support. I already knew how you were feeling about the steem blockchain and for parts of it you are correct!
I did read it on my phone, but had to switch on the laptop to write a decent reply. A genuine good reply which the article deserves!

So let's start:

• I did came to steem for the money but the urge to make it here vaporized fast. I just didn't see any chances. For sure because I am not the best writer in the world. But I did made some great connections here on the steem platform. I never thought that it would give me so much energy. Maybe this is because I did stumble on some people who do find interaction important, who do appreciate my bad written view points! Hence I never thought that I would install discord.
• While it seems impossible to increase the steem power it is not. Look at my wallet. I did invest into 21 steem shares but all the rest was earned on the blockchain.

Take a look at the contest @abh12345 is holding. That is all about engagement. I cannot vow that some of the participants are doing this because it is a contest but most of us aren't.
Maybe it is just the nice you love, where the most immoral people are. I don't know, because I switched from written about a nice to written about what gives me energy. The best thing that I even did on the blockchain.

While I do wan't to say that your viewpoint is incorrect, which it isn't, I just want to point out that the are maybe more genuine people on the blockchain than you maybe think!
Maybe I am wrong, could be, and was I just a lucky bastard, which could be too.
To conclude: I always appreciated your comments on my articles and I still do, even after this rant :) ! I can understand your rant but can't correlate to it completely!
I think that I am allowed to say that I have always supported you and will keep doing it. It is always good to read another perspective, which will make me think!
Thx for writing this down!

PS: really a 7 figure bank account?