You have an excellent point. If you wrote that example up in a separate post to bring attention to the problem, it might cause some changes.

The recent changes are treating 30 day old posts like old tweets, not as an asset that keeps earning. Why leave anything here, especially if you cannot get replies or tips, or have even basic controls like editing and deleting your posts and comments. All these features worked recently and have simply been disabled by the steemit.com website so they can keep your content for SEO. It's just chasing people away.

An example like yours describing the monetary cost of removing these features could get it changed back.