I actually hope they do something like this on Steem. Remove the reward pool and replace it by proof of stake where investors get passive returns and go into a direction more focussed on dapps. This would instantly drop the entire facade and solve all power struggle wars giving more reasons to power up. The entire upvote reward pool upvote system simply doesn't work the way it is intended as it's mostly just one big game for everyone to get as much out of it as possible ( post2mine | upvote4upvote | pretend2care | ...). It has great potential to connect likeminded people in a friendly environment but especially with the new HF21 rules, everything is really messed up.

I never joined whaleshares as the main reason for joining would be just to leech what I can get without anything more. I guess it won't have the real userbase to survive.

Keep it up!