Things were really bad for a few months and I'm not just talking the usual steem nonsense. The general sentiment was bad.
I gave Ned and steem a lot of flack over the years.
I mean my biggest posts to this day were where I summate my gripes with the system. Even Ned had to weigh in on one of them.
Glad he stepped down and let others run the show.

But things have changed. They realized that if you make the core community happy, that is the only way that you will have any kind of success.

People are content now. They're waiting and for now the future seems solid.