"The new development on board now is the witnesses trying to fork Steemit and make another one out of it. I still don't know how that might end up."

Steemit as we know it, will soon end. What's left of it will be integrated into the Tron blockchain, along with the Steem token.

No doubt, some Steemit witnesses will make an attempt to try and fork the Steem blockchain in an attempt to try and save Steemit, and of course maintain their gravy train of blood money, stolen from the rest of Steemit's members. Such a move however will fail, just as the current Steemit is rapidly failing, and has been failing over the past couple of years.