That short term thinking stuff kicks a lot of people in the butt. On Palnet, we get proof of concept, but there's still a long ways to go yet; still early in the game. People will need to decide now: Stake now and earn more later, or earn now and complain later about having nothing. People have the perfect opportunity to learn from history.
If/when these changes come into effect on steemit, it'll be slow going at first. That first little while might be enough to trigger some people into freaking out, again, because of the short term memory problems.