I think that change was really necessary, I like that. Because when I left, Steemit was crowded with these bots for upvoting and it was just really weird. It was actually one of the reason why I left. It was only a race onto upvoting. Really annoying.
I came back for the people here, I met some really cool ones back then and I wanted to know what happened to them :)
And there was no doubt, that Steemit itself had developed further. Interesting times ahead!