Yes, there was some disturbance the first few days after HARDFORK. Even Orca's and Dolphins could do not much the first 48 hours. That is the price we all got to pay for a drastic changes leading to a better future.

I see that even you tiny 15 SP let you do a modest qty of upvotes and comments:

19 comments or 110 upvotes. Right?
This is for 15 SP.
Just put another $15 out of your pocket to your SteemPower, and these figures probably will DOUBLE in no time

If network computation resources have it's price, someone got to pay for that, right?
I truly believe that asking EVERYBODY to pay of this cost proportionally to their usage is a FEAR thing.
Unless someone will be capable to prove me wrong.

P.S.
And please do not call me grandpa. Please.
I do not yet have even one single grand-child.