Thanks for the thoughtful reply. We're relying on both STEEM and Steemit in 2019. Fortunately, it would take less than an hour for us to switch over to an alternative if STEEM/Steemit completely failed. But you are nonetheless right, it is probably reckless to depend on Steemit at all.

Our company has already been burned by unreliable data vendors, over-promising developers, lying prospective financiers, etc., etc.. So our expectations are very low. And everyone involved in our venture has other primary means of support. Still, I'll look into further decreasing our dependency on STINC.