I am aware that you have nefarious detractors and I'm certainly not on their side ned. You know i've been around a while and I hope you know from not just my words but my actions, my history in the blockchain, that I am sincere. I'm not always right, far from it, but I will call out issues when I see them. This is a big one. It gives a lot of unecessary ammo to those who'd like to see steem fail. I want the opposite because....as we've clearly seen....the world needs steem or something like it, right now.
I'm not sure what you mean by looking to BAT, Gnosis and Ripple. I do not think they are models worth emulating. Ripple in particular should be avoided in my opinion. Steemit.inc has to set itself way higher than those projects if it is to retain the community's trust, fend off enemies and bring steem to the biggest audience.