Yes super exc observations. My comment for not upvoting whales was just an observation in general as well but definitely the whales are needed to stay up top new things and great contents because they do provide this most of the times. So its important to follow and engage with them. I am saying that voting power is valuable and since it runs off temporarily people in general should use it in different places strategically and promote upvoting for new people. The feeling of getting upvotes is nice and all new people should feel it when their contents are good.
I think we just need for the value of Steem to go up like with the rest of cryptos right now. Its a bear market at the moment so we just need to be patient for a moment. It will go back up but who knows when.
Steemit is an awesome platform and community. Everything is great and will be even better as time passes.
True that the whales are needed and that most of them share content with value. I'll be very exited when steem price goes up, although I was kinda serious about the retention strategy.