There are so many different levels of investment on this platform. Someone could just be on an exchange buying and selling Steem and never even have a Steemit account. Others could buy it and place it in an account so they get the interest but also have upward appreciation potential if the Steem token increases. Some of those people could care less what is posted and what is upvoted on really. They might not even know that they could earn additional Steem by curating passively with a bot.
Others have no clue what Steem Dollars are and that they could use that to earn interest while hedging against downside risk.
The only people who care about the drama on here are the people who are really engaged in this platform. It is seriously like 500 of us max.
To so many people that are going to see this in passing it kind of doesn't matter. They see it and probably think oh cool. That token has some blogging platform associated with it. Kind of like how there are so many people invested in Bitcoin who don't know the relationship between the private keys and public keys. A lot of them don't even know about the existence of alt coins....etc.
I think it is an interesting question but I feel like there are 300 people on here that really understand the economy on here and the different strategies to make money. Then there are probably like 50 people who REALLY know a lot and have a deep understanding of the code.