You're amazing, I read this one with so much thoughtfulness really one thing we must address is not address @ned as a sovereign entity because that would be suggesting centralization, it's decentralized and steemit should not be something we feel @ned solely own, a lot of stakeholders too are here
In fairness to @ned, if he is setting up another corporate entity that creates a UI meant to really pull in newer people, then that is a form of decentralizing. From his comments, it appears the two will be separate although there could be some cross ownership.
We will see what be brings out.