They need to get rid of the "beta" mentality as soon as possible. Because anything that happens can just be waved off "remember, it's in beta!"

I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out the tangled mess that is the witness system. It becomes painfully evident that @freedom / @pumpkin effectively chooses 13 of the top 20 witnesses, because they wouldn't be in top 20 without that vote.

That being said there are plenty of top 20 witnesses I respect and think are hard workers, but accepting this fork was totally irresponsible when they knew there was a negative RC's glitch happening but went ahead anyway.

The testnet that was used for this fork was not adequate because it was mirroring transactions from the mainnet, not a parallel, independent chain... i.e. "total fork rehearsal." I can't believe this is the first time that there's even been a (public) testnet!