I do think there is a lot of potential here

my point is that serious time/$ effort on my part is limited as long as i continue to see poor decsions made by the devs; a lot of that poor decision-making is driven by community demand to "make" the platform magically balance 3 competing user bases, and in particular efforts to "manage" the use of SP

you make a good argument in your post about the potential of STEEM ( and associated Dapps), and I'm not arguing against that or even suggesting that people should leave