Great letter @therealwolf! You made a lot of great points and I felt like you were being sincere.
There are a lot of us in the steemit community who want answers about the blockchain but don't have a voice. Witnesses should be that voice and have regular communication with the top teir of steemit.inc to relay the vision of the company as it progresses.
It seems like the whole steemit community is trying to come together and help anyway they can but ned just keeps ignoring us. That is a scary signal to the community, whether he meant to do it or not. Without this community this blockchain is worthless.. we promote it, we pay for it, we help to run it, we create the dapps that make it attractive.. "WE" the community