This entire rant only applies to Steemit.com and not Steem itself. Your perspective is one of a blogger. Spoiler alert: blogs aren't that valuable. The people who bring real value are the ones who know javascript and Node.JS.

That being said Steemit is talking about massively altering inflation in four different ways:

• increased curation to 50%
• non-linear reward pool
• separate flagging pool
• funding development

Each of these changes by itself represents the gross power that Steemit Inc wields. All of them at the same time turns us into a central-banking joke.

At the same time, your faith in Dan is highly misplaced. He is a joke in the true decentralized community, and Steemit 2.0 isn't going to pick up as much traction as you think it will.