from what i am seeing, mostly everyone is afraid of saying something negative but they all "choose" in which post to show it. For example you may hear a lot of them via discord channels or as comments in posts that have close to 0 visibility.

They won't for example go to a dolphin's or whale's post and say you are scammers etc etc cause one flag for them equals destruction.

On the other hand we have as you said the dolphins and whales who wanna act as politicians or smart-asses in order to believe themselves too that they know how the market works. The are others who simply take advantage of the majority of steemians to earn money for their sake and there are just a few that try to make this a better place.