Nope, it's all hype on this half-step semi-no-whale-vote thing. It gives the illusion that things are "fixed", when they aren't. But yes, things are better. But, it's only hype that's driving the price based on people thinking they have more power while the whales can still come in and decide that some content shouldn't get rewarded as high as it is, or at all. Centralization is still here, but it's being masked over. The price will go back down because this bump was only hype, not a real fix.
Hmmm interesting. So I thought this Whale experiment will be implemented in HF17, is that not so? I like it like it is now, made me invest in Steem again, and the retention of users will be less I guess.... So enlighten me please about this, thanks :)
It's not part of any hardfork, just some behavior changes.