replying here due to nesting

I think you are holding Steemit up to your own ideological standards instead of what it advertises itself as. While you might want a blockchain that is completely decentralized without any leadership, that is not this and it doesn't claim to be.

I don't necessarily want a completely decentralized or leaderless system. Im not saying you in particular do this (i only recently started following you, so i dont know how you think), but in my opinion there are many here who try to defend manifestly bad decisions as "the free market" or the "wisdom of crowds", and who try to hype steemit as something fundamentally new.

That is to say they take a fundamentally centralized, corporate system and wrap it in the flag of decentralization and the free market

The post below is certainly not the only example of this, but its a great one.

https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptogee/introducing-steem-the-first-anarchy-mined-coin