Excellent post. I think these are the real issues. I think there is more going on behind the scenes than we are lead to believe. Ned made some comments recently about building a brand new interface (app) to interact with steem that is in a separate corporate structure to steemit. It will probably get worse before it gets better but most of them (but not all) can see the blood dripping out of the open wound at the moment and they know they have to fix it. You get bickering on any platform. I am hoping this period of chaos will result in a much improved user experience . Its not easy trying to do a social media based blockchain. Just look at WeKu and people going over in droves to avoid the spam here and now coming back as WeKu has degenerated into platform for spammers and scammers. Ultimately no one has solved these problems that steem is trying to solve and the grass always seems greener elsewhere. Lets hope we can succeed.