I think that as a company you guys shouldn't take your word that lightly... You know, trust is something built when you can see reflected the words of an individual or a group in the actions that group or individual carries on.

That being said, it's not good to speak your mind out, make announcements, rise people's attention and then taking another route without fulfilling your previous promises... Even though the new direction can indeed create better results you should deliver what you initially promised, after finishing that you could focus on the new and more ambitious goals. This way, people will trust your decisions and also will support them without second thoughts.

Once of the facts damaging Steemit INC's PR was the repetitive trend of under delivering and the lack of capability to meet self established deadlines, this is one of the mistakes this company continuously made and I hope you guys can learn from that. Take your word as a contract and please avoid blinding yourselves with the idea that this new change essentially doesn't mean not meeting your initial claim because it is "essentially" a continuation or an improvement of the first promise... It actually can be so, but for an outsider perspective (and for a lot seasoned users here) it looks like you're speaking back and forth all the time.

Anyway, I really want to see you guys succeed, you created an amazing product called Steem... It reached less than 10% of it's potential but this 10% was amazing, hopefully you can focus on a project you can fully develop.

Kind regards.