compare that to EOS that has more gambling dapps on it as if it's trying to reflect on the same risk it had as an investment.

Now that really made me chuckle :'D

You've made some great points. Look at the number of dApps running on Steem and how many active users that they have. Even if Steemit Inc. were to disappear, I wouldn't be too sure that all outside development would just stop.

I reckon that the community would just take over and that multiple new platforms would just start popping up after a while.