I understand you completely!

I'm just a bit more than 2 month with Steemit; But I did see a lot of imbalance, and we do not have enough knowledge gained over the last year to understand what a GOOD implementation of the basic rules are. I would think many tests would already have been executed in the last year, but so far I could not really discover a solid plan and execution behind it. What I do know, when I came on board as an active user, I was so happy a guild help me out from time to time, otherwise I would have not been here anymore (it had nothing to do with the rewards itself, but there was just a small group of users who got all the attention and rewards, so it looked at least to me). Another reason I'm still here is that I really like the fact the we can work as a community respecting each other and trying to work together to make Steemit a great place to be, like the Whales finally pulled it of to work together in executing the No Whale vote experiment, knowing not all were on the same page. I appreciate that really much!

Now we have the HF17 as an issue with Witnesses not agreeing to the changes as implemented. Lets see what comes out of that and how this one will be progressed, but around HF17 a lot of theories are posted, but I didn't see practical test results. Since the discussions around HF17 are mostly regarding the basics of Steemit and Steem, also these need to come out of theory and put into practice through tests, and based on the results define what works good and what shall be trashed. I cannot wait to see Steemit to come out of Beta, like you, but lets get out of Beta when we get the basics right!