I got forked hard by the hardfork in the first place and I am still yet to recover. The technicalities involved are quite too complex, not only for new users even for old users who have no technical experience to digest the complexity well.
Most of the issues of the upgrade would yes discourage new users, even before the upgrade a new user would have to keep asking questions and seeing video tutorials to know what is up on here but with these whole stuffs, that is tripled for them and I do not think that is good for the sustainance of the users and the site.

@crypto.poitr, you see, in life, humans as integrative as we naturally be love friendliness as against hostility thus we can change habitat consciously or unconsciously to get that. Now, steemit is making its habitat, which they supposed decentralised centralised with the HF20 by imposing such complex change without prior education, hostile and might begin to lose fame into naught when another platform much more friendly arises. Even now there is Weku. It would just be like the birth of gmail sinking yahoomail or facebook sinking all other social networks before it to the top.

The whole idea has merits and demerits, to me, the demerits are way too many than the merits.

Steemit owners have got to watchout as competitors are watching out on them to leverage on their mistakes and boom they show up and poof, steemit might go down.

Tomorrow shall tell better of steemit, hopefully.

@jodekss