I accumulate SP so that I can have more influence in allocating the rewards to under-recognised, valuable contributors, and to influence the Witness schedule, which I think, I could be about to start to really start throwing a cat amongst the pigeons.
I have raised multiple extremely valid and critical issues on the steemit github. One was about the severe security flaw in the requirement to use a sensitive Active or Owner key by witnesses to set their feeds, which makes automated price setting somewhat risky to do with a hosted server not under one's physical control. Being that steemd is such a demanding application, both in disk data throughput and network latency, to not be able to make this data feed automated, in my view, damages the effectiveness of the SBD pegging algorithm.
And in response to raising these issues at github, this is the kind of response I get: https://steemit.com/steem/@l0k1/a-little-glimpse-of-what-non-inner-circle-developers-and-witnesses-face-when-dealing-with-steemit-inc
From a top 19 witness!