For the past 7 years, it has been public information that voting for multiple copies of a single actor as witness is an attack on DPoS. The definition has existed for a long time. Whether people previously attacked the chain from ignorance or defiance is unknown, but the fact remains that attacking stake was removed - not neutral stake as you claim. To justify steem HF23, new definitions of "attack" have been created, and very little of the crypto world will believe in these new definitions

I agree with you that freezing Justin's stake was wrong, but that in no way justifies the action of steem HF23