Why do I feel like my questions yesterday in discord inspired this post. LOL
Overall I agree with the sentiment, and im definitely in this game for the long haul. Steem has been one of my favorite projects for quite some time and I believe it has to potential to be a top 5 coin. Its currently the fastest blockchain who's mainnet has been stress tested. My only serious critique of the platfofm is whether there is enough incentive for new people to run nodes. I personally come from the school of thought that everybody using the network should at least somewhat be contributing to the stregnth/stability of the network, but with STEEM this does not seem like it would make economic sense for anyone who is not already a whale o do so
Yeah, I don't think the intent was ever that nodes be run by noobs. I'm not sure though.