They lack the creativity and intelligence required to properly assess the best ways to solve problems. They are attached to their premined stake, and that bogus method of funding development, in an unbounded manner, in fact, probably right now, they are dumping steem on the market to fund this new 'fabric' they are building. It runs counter to the best practices in the industry for scaling databases.
They are just extending and pretending so they can keep milking their premined stake, until someone does bring something out that vacuums out their userbase and they go down in flames in a public spectacle of ignominy.
Let's hope that is not the sum of the indicators.