Being a part of building a project with great potential. The rewards will come when you do that consistently.
When you come here hoping for big money for a few posts, you will be disappointed. Now, and in the future.
Of course it'd have been great if he stayed. But the experiment brings a lot more positive results by giving people's vote a worth, creating engagement. Getting upset about it is not in the best interest of Steem and the community. He didn't care, so I don't care about him.
Yes, @pharesim. Also see, Forget about making money on Steemit. For now.
A guaranteed method to kill the social @steemit is to value the tech, math, experiment over people.
The experiment values people! Their votes have impact now.
Can't make everyone happy, that's life. I prefer when those that care about the platform are the ones who's catered to, not those with pure self interest.