Sure we all made money, but do you understand the cost?

Well said. It would be great to see the Byteball airdrop as a use case for Steem that we could hold up to the Crypto community of a successful airdrop where they achieved an effective distribution of their token to a community of potential participants, with minimal scamming. Given what you describe in your post I am not sure that is the case.

On a related note I would include the SBD pump here as another example where the community got high on free money and were blinded to the long term costs to the Steem Blockchain.