I don't know. Steemit is like the outside world. One cannot fix it, only deal with what flaws it has. As long as I can find people here who seem to surf on the same wave I am still loyal. I don't care so much about the trending page. This page is like mass media to me. It shows all the crap and dark sides of humanity and is taken way too seriously.
A forgotten project: that also may be the case one day ... or not. Who knows. Funny that you mentioned the same article. As a response I posted an article, too:
https://steemit.com/steem/@erh.germany/enter-a-mermaid-s-mind-an-observation-of-the-steemit-system
I just freed myself from that crazy pace I put myself into. I wanted to prove something to myself and after having proved it I felt exhausted. Now I am much more relaxed after pausing and only writing once in a while. Which might be seen ridiculous from the outside to say a one month break is even a real pause. ... But in these fast times, it actually is long.
Writing this while sitting on my balcony with birds singing and lovely spring temperatures here in Hamburg.
Goodbye for now.
P.S. I've got a lot of texts in my pipe. Do you have any preferences? I can offer an article over AI or metaphoric stuff about Buddhism:)
The only reason I still lurk here is to see if it does get fixed.
I'm not optimistic.
After seeing other waves of greed and exploits being used to drain the Reward Pool, I've concluded that Delegated-Proof-of-Stake is flawed. Maybe there is no way to fix it, after all.
As for texts, if you have something interesting - a writeup would be fine and I'll read it on your blog.