Yeah...buying Steemit is akin to adopting an open source project. Maybe there's profit to be had, such as in the Steem they hold, but that's like stock. You gotta make Steem worth more to make money. So, we just gotta be hopeful that they aren't complete idiots, and turn out to be half-competent stewards. Can't do much worse than Steemit has.
But I've been mostly away, and not quite up on what's happened.