I definitely hope that STEEMIT INC. will be more open with their delegations. They helped build this platform and no matter how much we hope, they still heavily influence it. Development is expected to be done by them, so is a lot of other things. Its time that we started taking things into our hands. I know that some witnesses(especially @timcliff and @gtg) have helped development(@gtg has helped exchanges add STEEM or reached out to them when things were down with their gateways). We need to transition from relying entirely on STEEMIT INC to becoming self reliant. Thats what the witnesses should be helping us with. And having good communities is an important part of this and events like this aren't good for STEEM at all. Maybe this is just another wakeup call that STEEMIT INC needs(not that they haven't had a few already, the chain stopping twice in less than 3 months is a pretty big wakeup call). Hopefully they change their ways and at least involve witnesses in their decisions as well. We are choosing them to lead us, and this is something that the elected leaders should be doing, not some closed door stuff.