It's good Appics has stayed, it's not long (if things go by the book) until they'll have their SMT. I don't think they would've been able to do much on their own, because there's not really anything out there to replace the functionalities Steem has. The time just seems unbearably long for the ones who wait (us, active participants), but when the SMTs finally come, people will quickly forget that and move on to the next low hanging fruit (problem).