Like you, I'm highly positive about the status of STEEM. At the same time though I am growing increasingly skeptical about the future of STEEM by the mostly positive sounds, and voting for positive sounds, by top witnesses and by steemit inc. The HF20 features are mostly improvements. HF20 though was an absolute nightmare scenario playing out before our eyes and with all the big players getting behind the positive message, nobody really claiming responsibility for their part in this disaster , I'm afraid I don't see any learning going on. As a result the fears that a next HF might end up a platform killer are growing. HF20 should have been HF20...HF24 or even HF20...HF29. Small, well tested, reversable incremental changes. So for me, the status of STEEM does in no way attenuate fears for the future of STEEM. The culture of "we fixed it, right, so what is the problem" is in no way appropriate for a platform representing over $250,000,000 in value.
Ceterum censeo HF20 esse delendam
i get your frustration and share it, but if give yourself a chance to listen to this:
https://steemit.com/msp-waves/@aggroed/steem-witness-forum-recording