I totally agree with you. SteemIt had a very high stake anyway. I know that them selling their stake is probably going to collapse the price... but that is what we have to pay to achieve more decentralisation.

SteemIt has done their job. As far as I'm concerned they should leave, if they are not interested in developing anymore.

I mean, what have they done over the entire year of 2018?

• A new GUI for SteemIt.com that is worse and uglier than the previous one;
• HF20 Fork, which was a total f@ckup!

That's pretty much what they've done. Other than that, they've promised SMTs... over and over again. We're no closer to that than a year ago.