It is a free market he wants to sell he can surely do it remember if he does get to sell someone else will own it. He also doesn't have to tell everyone what he is doing.

As for Steemit to me it is in way better shape now than at any moment under the previous owners. Don't say it was decentralized because actually if you think of it, in any endeavor there is always someone who controls things, I don't care what it is, I hear BTC is decentralized and yet the price is moved up or down depending on what the big holders do, you know - price manipulation.