"This is discussed at great length in the whitepaper. It is basically the design behind Steem."

It is certainly one of them. Others, such as rewards for content creation, and curation, are perhaps more integral to Steemit than VP weighting, in terms of design.

Whether Steemit amends the code weighting VP, again, as it did with HF19, or not, there are other platforms being created that are making changes in how VP is weighted, and taking reputation into account to do it.

You may appreciate that it is not I writing the code =p.

While my investment in Steem is limited to rewards, and I do not intend to spend them for the foreseeable future, I do care about the price, as it drives interest in Steemit, about which I do care a great deal.

I, too, will be happy if the price of Steem doesn't crash, as it will mean that Steemit doesn't. However, I am sure that all of us would be also quite happy to see the price perform as BCC has recently. I am unaware of any advantages BCC has over Steem as a currency, particularly given the potential of a social media platform to drive use of the currency, which BCC doesn't have.

Steem has advantages in transaction speed, lack of fees, and the social media platform driving it's adoption, over other cryptos, and it seems likely to me that the markets are cognizant of those benefits, and also it's flaws.

If we learn anything from the BTC fork, it is that a good forking resulting in twin currencies can be very good for the parent currency. Perhaps Steem might take advantage of this lesson, and spawn.