This post made me wanna flag it, I wonder if it would bother you at all.
We do need some community-minded improvements, not only for investors' interests. If a whale self-votes I lost my vote worth afaik, and it doesn't help me to stay around happily or spread the word about steem. I also don't have enough past experience in here as you do but there is nothing to do in here as a newcomer lately. So how steem userbase will grow while everyone self-votes and bots ruling the community.
Something odd, I've recently closed this tab
https://steemit.com/steem/@l0k1/introducing-smackdown-kitty