Hey, @bashadow.
Oh, I think they would look long and hard at whether a company is capable of providing a product people want, and following through on deliverables, along with their long term goals. Things can look promising to start, then bottom out.
If you'd asked me what was going on at Steemit Inc. in 2018, I would have been hard pressed to give a positive answer. Too much trying to be accomplished at once with no clear direction or reason for doing so, really.
However, 2019 saw a lot of house clearing, getting what I call lean and mean, and focusing on core values and necessities, and I think that's made things quite a bit better.
I'm not at all sure I understand how decisions get made, how much they actually care about what the normal users wants versus the main stake holders and or the witnesses, but it does feel different now we're in 2020 then it did for all of 2018 and the beginning of last year.
Steemit Inc. has been rathe quiet of late with their updates, too, which may just be a byproduct of the holidays, or there not being much to report on because SMTs are in the testing phase and Communities in open beta.
So, anyway, personally I'm feeling a little better about Steemit Inc than I was, but it probably wouldn't take much for me to be right back where I was previously, wondering what the heck they're doing or not doing.