22.8888: "freeze" accounts that were actively contributed to the potential stoppage of the STEEM blockchain

I do not see how these accounts can "actively contribute to the potential stoppage of the STEEM blockchain":

a) They do not have enough SP to overule the current witness positions.
b) They are powering down and therefore their influence on steem will diminish over time.

This softfork will only make steem look like a non-friendly place for investors. It is an obvious attempt to try to stop these accounts from selling their steem on the market which only tarnishes even more the reputation of steemit and those that are supporting it.

What happened to the promise of not freezing the funds of account holders?