Blaming the decline in price on the downvotes after years of dropping in value and out of alexa rankings is pretty unfair considering the difference it has caused in honest curation where good authors have to purchase votes instead of getting them for free in a working proof of brain system that sets aside our dpos model from the rest

The problem, of course IMHO, lies within cutting off the creators from any possibility to get their content proper community feedback. Yes it is. What is more, the so called crusaders have led to diminishing of whole non-English communities, which can't get curators' attention.
Because this has led to gathering of SP into mega whales