My opinion is the exact same and that is why I also put my time and money where my mouth is and went on #SteemitStrike for a week, not posting.
I walked away from a week of huge paying posts, as you will notice if you look down my blog page now.
My opinion then, as now, and I have written it several times since coming back y-day --- this was rolled out VERY very poorly, with no notice and was deployed very very sloppy not using any best practices or communications.
Just some of the top 1% in life, doing what they want and also not handling themselves very well at times.