I agree. The chain is technically still not censored, but atm it basically is just a fancy database. There used to be a lot of API nodes. Also the interface can be distributed, by running your own, and e.g. Steempeak does that and esteem did that, but esteem is now also over to Hive. I do hope the people here manage to build stuff up again... but I was kinda waiting for Hive to happen from the moment after Justin Sun came in and it was just talk about TRON, so I could do meaningful things with the blockchain without fear.