I believe that this change can bring more focus to individual apps on the blockchain. Until now, most of the people got their accounts from Steemit for free. Though, the account was never free to create in the first place. Now the apps have or can have more responsibility in making new accounts and caring about them.
I would say that most people freaked out because mana (RC, voting mana) was reset to zero or close to it and suddenly they felt that there is no place for them. The biggest mistake that happened was the presence of some critical bugs that caused the "chaos" and not everything worked as expected. On the other hand, we did not see the full stabilization of the costs and instead the resources will be increased so that tiny accounts are usable.
That's a good point but my pessimist side is telling that apps and stakeholders can easily use this power/ability to abuse the system. Or increase their ROI by every way they find. They may use it for mass adoption or they may just create their own spam army. Let's say an account can post 10 times a day after creation, they can create 1000 of them and we are back to zero while forbidding the real human users.
About the price, I kinda disagree because those accounts didn't bought by Steemit, it was just a lend. They lend 15 SP and spent some creation fee and that's it. Maybe just undelegating after a time period was an easier, painless solution.
I think the drain wasn't unexpected, I would appreciate a warning like "Don't use your VP, 24 hours before the HF, it may cause a drain" Well, thank you stinc I'll try not to use it.
Oh and a shoutout to dApp owners who's going to create accounts, make a google search about "disposable phone numbers", all of those public numbers are used to create accounts with Steemit's faucet, now every number is a potential dozens of accounts through dApps.
Even if it was just delegated SP it still means that the creator had to have the SP in the account. Anyway, the blockchain is influenced by the stake everyone holds. The previous system did not prevent anything you talk about.
I don't deny that the transition wasn't smooth. Having none of those bugs may have a different impact on the users although the action cost is quite high and for some unreachable.
Everyone can/could create a new account in one way or another. Are you talking about the fact that there is no prevention of creating accounts for potentially malicious purposes?
Last paragraph was just a heads-up for the ones who'll build an account creation service. Possibly those numbers going to be used to create accounts through these service. So yes they need to keep this in mind when they are spending their precious RCs.
BTW I'm not saying this approach is bad, it just prices are too high. I wouldn't mind the VP drain, I'm not losing much without voting but I don't want to limit myself to comment x times a day.It suppose to be a social network, where people easily interact. I don't wanna run out of comments in the middle of a discussion.