There are many stakeholders who are happy to support users and communities that are persistent and hoping to grow on Steem. I appreciate the effort of putting into words your current experience with the recent hard fork.

I just want to add that the intentions of the changes is to bring more votes back to normal users who post good content, rather than having so much stuck in bidbots and automated voting. The free downvotes also allow more rewards to be returned to the normal users from previous abusers that would just milk the system. It may take some time for the changes to give results, but I would give it some time. For sure it is not meant to simply enrich large stakeholders more, that was the previous model that allowed unchallenged self-voting and bidbots.