Wow. I could not agree more. Everyone has their own idea what steemit should look like, but as more and more adopt the platform, it should form around those new users. The whales should see the greater adoption as more legitimacy of the bank where they keep their money.
Communicating that to some of the big investors is hard to do if you want to avoid the thumbs down thing here that kills rep. But we stumble on and try to make everyone happy.