Thank you. I've made this opinion known for quite some time, and even tried to get a witness node up and running myself at one point.
I respect the work that is done by curie, ocd, csquared, and other such community accounts and projects, and support them with my witness votes.
Witnesses were more than sustainable, and many do delegate to curation projects, and competitions which promoted people to bring new content to steem, but these rewards were not ... as philanthropic as say, patrons in the traditional art world.
It seem that we're on the same page here @holoz0r
ps.
I would need to ask you for little favour. Recently I've decided to join small contest called "Community of the week" and I desribed our project.hope hive/community. Would you mind helping me out and RESTEEM this post - just to get some extra exposure? Your valuable comment would be also appreciated.
Link to my post: on steemit or on steempeak
Thanks :)
Yours, Piotr