I liked your reality take on this. Maybe we will get to see more buy this coin type post so the investors know where to go next after the user base begins to dwindle. Seems that they just do not learn, we got RC's so everyone could get a free account for their friends and family with out having to wait for weeks on end for steemit to approve accounts, That worked wonderfully during the last hard fork. Oh yeah and it was supposed to control spam, seems to me that the flagger brigades have been busier than ever since HF20.

Unlike HF20, there are no precautions to take against the proposed changes, at least I did get my Free-Pre HF20 just in case account. While it may not be profitable for self votes right now, after the fork, maybe it will be.