We have a lot of products based on the steem blockchain, steemengine, steem monsters, busy, partiko, dtube, steemhunt, actifit, dsound, and despite some of them having received some initial steem power, (taken away), they have all pretty much made their own products with out the help of SPS, or steemit, so I question the need for SPS. If a group of dedicated people want to build, they build, they take the attitude if they build it people will come. It worked, people came to those applications. Now compare them to some of the Steemit backed projects, have they succeeded? Or did they end up being vaporware, or off to greener pastures.

What was/is the purpose of the steemalliance the non-profit back steem projects project? Were they not initially tasked with deciding how steemit resources such as SP should be delegated? What projects should receive backing? I may have completely misunderstood the whole purpose for it, and I am not saying I did not misunderstand, but that was and is my understanding of what they were designed and voted in to do.

Is Steem working, absolutely not a doubt in my mind, is steemit working? that is where I am not to sure. It seems to me SPS is nothing more than a non-government decentralized-centered tax. Steemit made a deal with someone, not busy, not partiko, not steem monsters, not any of the other front ends or applications on the steem blockchain, yet they and their customers are being taxed on a decentralized platform by a centralized organization via SPS.