Looking around in the comments, @denmarkguy, I'm surprised that the folks you mentioned haven't added anything.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with concerns about where things are headed, or what any of all of these initiatives and councils and alliances are actually ultimately going to accomplish.

And yet, it's hard to say a whole lot of negative things about people who seem to be genuinely trying to help others, or STEEM as a whole.

So, here we are, wondering what's to come of all of this, when so far, at least in my experience, it's just as much about what users are willing to do for themselves, as it is about who's helping who.

I do believe there is some kind of winnowing criteria in some of this, anyway, so who knows. Time always seems to be the means by which we get to see how all of this shakes out.