if you ask me, their narcissism is their downfall.

Yep, I agree with you on this. They keep telling us how this is the best blockchain, the best tech, the best project, no one else is doing what we are doing... yet we are the 80th most valuable crypto project. At some point the market is truth and I wish these guys would consider that. The only way this can last is if it is made sustainable. It's not sustainable currently. One way to do it is the way Voice is doing it. Spend a bunch of money upfront to get users on the site, then implement ads, those ads will pay for things. So, you have a site with a bunch of users, funding itself via ads from that large amount of users. Steemit had the opportunity to do exactly that but we still aren't fully there... focusing on the wrong things. We should be focusing on how to get as many people on the site as possible, not trying to fight 'abuse' via the EIP, which will likely drive people away and make it even harder for new users on here... sigh... ugh.