RE: What the fuck do witnesses do?

You can join Open Hive Chat and join the #witness-blocks channel and then set a ping notification for your user name to be notified of missed blocks.

It is not my preferred way of doing it, but it's easy to setup and at least gives you bare minimum notification.

If you use FRIDAY, it also has notifications. They also have notification for stale price feeds.

Add in redundancy with a fail over script and you can eliminate downtime altogether.

There are solutions and they are not difficult or complex.

I don't think you see the irony of saying you should be top 20 when you are not even remotely doing the bare minimum to be a proper witness. I could care less about the statements about current witnesses and so on, I don't fully disagree with some of what is said. I do however take offense to expecting to be top 20 when it would put our chain at risk.

Especially from leadership (top 20 witnesses)

Witnesses are not leadership, they are merely here to do a job and keep the chain running and safe. Granted they may do other things.

I also take offense to your statement on Discord calling your community to change their witness votes because your feelings were hurt. This is disgusting and comically immature.