The whales concept in Steemit is a bit ridiculous. If you make a post that gets upvoted by 1 whale, you earn more than a post upvoted by 1000 minnows. People will be fast to switch to synereo.
I also noticed that the whales upvote their friends and girlfriends. That's not really something that people are waiting for. But anyway ... I already warned them many times for this. Looks like they will learn it the hard way. Or steemit whales leaves their communist traits and adhere to the true free market principles, or other social platforms will make steemit obsolete.
I might sound a bit like a dick, but this is the truth. I am grateful for what steemit gave me. I made some nice money here that I am using now to make even more money trading. So all my thanks to steemit. But the whole whales concept is just 1 big mess. You can't give a few people so much control and expect all other people to be OK with that.
We still have gatekeepers known as whales.