is Steemit, Inc. going to stick by their story that HF21 was a "good" thing?

Of course!

Think of how long they prepared for the improvements.

O so your argument thus far is that steemit is what exactly? That steemit has been preparing for the improvements[snark]? Nah, nothing to counter there, no argument, only a mindless slap on the back for a slanderous post.

Moving on..

For instance:

They removed the button showing how many readers we have...so that hopefully the number of votes (up or down) make us feel we are being read

So you want to enumerate this as number one, fine. Tell me, what is the argument here, that they removed the view counter because...

Surely it's not some hare brain theory that they did it because "so that hopefully the number of votes (up or down) make us feel we are being read", clearly there are numerous more sensible reasons why such a thing came to pass, but don't let me stop you from speculating that it's some overarching ominous plan concocted simply to bilk everyone.

When we comment or reply, we no longer see the range of comments (unless we have the time and do not mind lots of extra clicks to read from the original, which shows all), we only see the one reply...so we quickly give up, thinking nobody else was interested in debating the matter. Just as well, since everyone with an SP of less than 2,000 cannot vote on comments, since they just get sent back to the reward pool, making more Steem available for the big voters

So no arguments what so ever this far, at least nothing that would elicit acknowledgement as anything being an argument (abductive, presumptive, deductive or inductive) and the least counter to it, but you continue to number dos unfazed, which is that you have a problem with the comment nesting, which undoubtedly is only there as a jumping point to blatantly lie and say that under 2k sp votes on comments get dusted.

So what's the argument here, that steemit did this to screw the little guy, right, the dust limit is there to enrich the big guy? Or what, that the comment nesting is not conducive to people's incessant need to have everything served on a silver plate? When the comment nesting limit was removed it introduced the need to structure the comment section so it can handle the nesting issue, but you think that when there was a comment nesting limit and you never had to click to read a conversation in the comments that it was better than having a not-broken comment section that can handle nesting and replies properly, and what you want is to bring it back to where people are left to respond to parent comments after 6 or so nested comments. Not a hare brain theory, a intrepid argument, lol. And you should have shut the fuck up and you would have me pointing out that #1 and #2 are #2.

Moving on:

They reduced the waiting period for post voting, thus ensuring everyone just rushes in to vote, not having to or being able to take the time to read and make an evaluation...so the crappier our articcles or posts, the better, as we do not waste time on creating posts that take effort and time.

Is this another of your interpid arguments? That they reduced the voting limit to make everyone rush to vote? Nah, no argument there, not only does the limit give more than enough time to consume, many do not care about the limit, and it was reduced so that the people who consumed it before the limit don't simply return shares back to the pool when they vote early. You though, think it's nefarious or something.
Moving on.

Curators - does the word mean or suggest that they are there to study the posts and reward the best? Actually, what it means...no, surely this would be false...I mean, is it not a fact that most of the curators with their tails...er...trails, are witnesses? No, it would be baseless of us to even suggest that witnesses changed the creator/curator sharing of rewards because they stood to gain?

Yeah, because why not suggest that the witnesses colluded.
Can't argue with suggestions like that.

Has everyone noticed that the 'team' are doing their best to accustom us to the fact that they love lying, so that we do not take exception to it? How many times a day do they lie? I wish they would get more inventive, as I find it very boring being told a number of times per day that the page I want does not exist...and then it opens.

No shit, but let me point out that no one is stopping you from forking this place and no one is forcing you to take part of something that is ran by liars, because that's what socialists do, they ask why are you still here if you think so little of the place and people here, which somehow is an insidious emotional argument, not a blatant common sense thing, that you aren't forced to be here at all,where you dislike it and where you think the "team" is so despicable.