Well @trincowski ...

"I don't get it. The best tool available for Steem by a really long margin... and some whales are opposing it?"

... I don't pretend to either, but of one thing I am certain. Pretty anywhere in life, the closer you get to "the top of the food chain" the more fierce the competition becomes. Particularly if there is an accompanying perception of "scarce resources" ...

Lots of "utopian visions" of what our Steem blockchain might be, but in the meantime, what is it day to day? Just what we are talking about here and what can be seen demonstrated on Steemchiller's post ...