Your article is astute and accurate on many levels, if you look at the price value of Steemit dollars against USD also, you see this "slow death" before your eyes, the only real reason steemit got off the ground was the dissatisfaction felt many youtubers, due to such little control and freedom given to creators, and as time goes on and more and more people become aware of the whales on here, its slowly going to die for sure. Look at the lack of income from your excellent post as evidence of this, its a bunch of greedy nerds behind the scenes, not doing this for liberty but to try and steal a slice of youtube and social media pie, while being just as ethically destitute.