You can view Dan powering down and pushing Steem into the market as a good thing. I mean, he is a MASSIVE stakeholder. Providing that amount of liquidity to the masses in my opinion is a good thing. His mind is probably consumed by bigger and better things (new projects). He probably isn't too worried about trying to ball out of control, because, well, he is already doing that both monetarily and in terms of doing good for the world.