You might see it that way according to all everything is considered reward pool rapage.
The beauty though is each stake can do what ever the hell the next person can do.

Ned is watching but he is respecting steemit as being decentralized if he starts taking sides... well guess what it ain't decentralized any more.

People can complain all they want but at the current moment steemit allows this to happen only code can can fix any disagreements.