Ok, so in the shortest way possible I’ll say your friend is taking randomly things and trying to make it into something more.

Steemit Inc. had blockchain developers who code the forks, yes. Many developers contribute to a lot of code (you can see this on github) and yes many people tested the code and yes there were issues after. Some issues can be expected but these sorts of halts in the chain should not happen.

As far as the discussion about the 2T, to me that is a witness who doesn’t think about what they are saying when they speak.

The issue has to do with curation rewards and an error in the text made the chain read it incorrectly, due to the error the chain stopped. Now while this is not ideal, it’s actually a safe guard as if it stops, the error does not continue.

The reason it took so long to get back up was due to replay of the servers... which was an oversight and needs to be improved.

I’m not with Steemit Inc. but all of this was put in multiple posts, so it’s not “secret”. I do very much think they need to improve upon communication so these sorts of “misunderstandings” are not passed around.

I hope that helps.