I am personally concerned about my investments as no funds are save anymore when the witnesses don't like it.
A realistic scenario when exchanges (like Binance or Upbit) decide to make staking Steem on their exchange available, vote witnesses, upvote and run as a witness and influence the current power balance... are we going to freeze the funds on the exchanges accounts too? Binance is already offering to stake for different coins on its platform and is also the biggest SR at Tron. Why not for Steem?
What when as an example (Korean) users gather together to fund 10 Mil. USD and gain 50Mil. Steem to force a replacement on witnesses. (Which is also a scenario that had been often in discussion in several cases). Are we going to soft-fork that also? Because it is a hostile overtake? But what is a hostile overtake? Steem is not a security.
But the most important part, all that kind of scenario is hypothetical, but the soft-fork is reality.
I do appreciate the hard and continued work the witnesses have done the last 4 years and I was one of the few that have defended their hard work within the Korean community, but this one step was a step too far IMHO.
RE: Raising fundamental questions of decentralization