I 100% agree with everything in this post. The minnows and Dolphins have had no choice but to either leave Steem or utilize what was available. Bitbot owners who are trying to fund development of another steem project now have steem-engine, and if their project is good people will support it hand over fist, and if the project is shit than it deserves shit. Bitbots strong-arm the ecosystem to rely on them to compete for views on a platform that is all but dead, and the only defense they can come up with is that they are funding a project.
I'm glad to see this hardfork like no other. Hopefully the abuse can stop and Steem can actually be for the people and by the people instead of the racketeering that bidbot owners have been pulling off for too long. We don't need a god damned middleman to use Steem, that's why we opt into crypto in the first place ffs.