I feel witness should bring different things to the table and be more focused on whatever their niche is then trying to cash a very wide net.

While I would agree I want to see some kind of update or least them being active here weekly.

What would be cool is if ones that had similar things they bring to Steemit would get to gather and create a collective blog from time to time more on a month scale. That invites in community engagement where there are several witness their thought the day to interact with it till it closes.

I’m not sure how much working together if any happens behind the scenes.

As far as the disturbing illegal things going on this site I can only hope Steemit Inc. is working on dealing with that more. Just flagging it is not enough when it comes to certain things even more so if their servers are storing it. I don't know if witness have a more direct commutations line to devs to deal with things like that faster or not.