There is nothing particularly damning in your screenshots though.

Steemit is an inept amatuer website maker. The steem block chain is not steemit, inc.

There isn't much of a reason to "give two shits about steemit" really. We need to improve the ecosystem and continue to make ned and company irrelevant, since they cannot and will not code their way out of a paper bag.

And by the way, they don't even get SMTs if the top 20 don't accept that hardfork, and then steemit, inc and company is fooked and destined to be replaced by competent smaller teams like busy.org and so on. So guess who has a vested interest in gaming the chain of command on the chain?

I'll just leave that there for everyone to chew on as I have been whenever the opportunity presents itself.

But yeah, I not only don't give two shits about steemit, inc. I actively dislike the damage they do to hold back the real future of this chain, damage which is perpetuated by people not even realizing they are not the same thing at all by spreading misconceptions about how code control works here and who is responsible for what.

The top witnesses who are already in position also have a vested interest in not accepting changes that make it easier for you to climb up there, naturally.

If you think it's a mistake that despite many other places for info where you can place a vote, that the primary place users are sent to vote on witnesses only shows 50 and doesn't identify dead ones at all, while allowing a single unprompted click to immediately remove write in votes without warning, isn't on purpose? You'd be foolish to think it's just a low priority set of fixes being ignored. It's part of the manipulation attempts by steemit inc to retain yet more control over the process.

That said, a few have made it up on pure merit or pure influence. Welcome to the game. Play to win by the playground rules, or don't play. That's the option. Because the rule makers have already made it so they can be the only ones to change the rules. IF you can play to win in the current climate, you can gain the power to try and help sway a change in the climate. You just need 15 like minded individuals in the top 20.

Bottom line is you are not, as your post states, a "steemit witness" - you are a "steem witness" - and they are not the same thing, because one of the two is a No-such-thing.

Steemit is one company of many, perhaps the first, sure, but probably one of the worst on the chain in terms of competence in all departments, tech, marketing, and planning, with total fails in customer service. And there are various reasons for that. Some sheer incompetence, and some, purely self serving, short sighted and obvious to anyone with half a brain about tech and tech companies and more specifically, the history and inner workings of this dPOS/PoB block chain construct as it stands today and has stood through 19 prior hardforks.

In the end your post kind of sounds like crying at the batting box, and there's no crying in baseball, just gotta swing harder and beat the teams that play dirty, with skill.