I know, Witnesses have been going through a tough time due to low market price of STEEM but so are Authors & Curators too.

Witnesses will preach all day about how they're struggling only making a pittance because of low steem prices etc. But the top 100, if you take into account how much they made when steem prices were high, and how much a lot of them make from behind the scenes activities (like running bidbots), have made very decent returns when taken over the life time of their witness activities.

Meanwhile, high level content creators across steem, can only get an illusion of payout on their posts by paying for them. Apart, from the lucky few circle jerkers.

What you point out in this post is spot on, wtf has happened?

They sneaked this through without opening it up to the community to decide. There was a dpoll about 3 months ago about this where it was clear that the majority wanted the proposal system to come from donations, or at the very worst from inflation across the board. The fact that it's only coming from content/curation % of inflation, means they have just gone ahead and made the decision behind closed doors in the witness discord.

Is that decentralisation? Not sure really 😉