It certainly doesn't help us onboard new users and encourage them to power up when the currency just goes down and down and down, though to be fair not all of that is due to the Steemit,Inc dumping, but it is a big part.

As we saw in 2017 and 2018, the easiest way to onboard new users is a soaring steem (or SBD) price. Our goal should be to base most of our decisions around making that happen and the rest takes care of itself.