the ones with power to stop it

Are making enough money to pretend it is not a problem and pretend they are morally superior.

we even opened the doors to rectroactive payments

That exact proposal made me lose a bit of faith in Hive, look at how many top 20 witnesses supported that despite widespread community criticism

https://peakd.com/me/proposals/368

Some people are becoming what we thought Justin Sun would be for Steem.

We don't need to burn the DHF, it is useful for financing in terms of high liquidity and strong bull markets. The thing is, we may not live to see another bull market.