I agree with the underlying sentiment of this post, but I actually think "serious" early adopters should be vocal about what just happened. I always try to keep an optimistic and forward-looking mindset, but the implementation of the past fork was embarrassing for two main reasons.

1. The testnet was mirroring transactions from the mainnet, but it was a slightly invalid way to test because the old transactions were running on the old bandwidth rules. So there was a lot of guesswork involved and what was needed was a brand new chain to experiment with. Even then, you never know 100% that something will work when it goes live. But that leads to the second point.

1. The negative RCs glitch was something devs were aware of and went ahead anyway, because they felt comfortable having a failsafe of reverting back to the old bandwidth system. I believe that pressure to get SMTs released on time contributed to the top 20 agreeing to go ahead knowing there were issues.

I do agree with you that anyone who wants to leave STEEM because of this should. Most of us that are seriously committed will be sticking around even were the ship to go down completely. There's billions of people in the world, loss of a few thousand is insignificant in the long run.

Many have made good points regarding the lack of organization and difficulty coordinating/ coming to consensus with decentralized systems. When it comes to code development it means that proposed changes are poorly documented and scattered.

I think it is fair for early adopters/ witnesses (including non top-20) to request that things are documented and streamlined better by setting up dedicated teams/divisions to ensure the consistency and quality of code. If militaries and huge corporations can do it, you better believe that STEEM should be doing it.

Or perhaps the are doing it, but not enough, and certainly never explaining it to the masses. The communication increase on @steemitblog is nice, but why not a post every day? And why not have more than just @andrarchy dedicated to reply to Steemians but a whole liaison team?

TL;DR complaints are a waste of breath, specific criticism/questioning is something I'd like to see more of on here, not just trusting that Steemit, Inc. will take care of everything.