Thank you for your critical comment. I think I failed to effectively quell the implication of voting for witness = agreeing with their soft fork, especially when several of these Steem witnesses were legitimate people that contributed to Steem before they implemented 0.22.8888 to restrict arbitrary stakeholder accounts from most transactions. They received a lot of votes before that.

That's a layer of complexity I failed to address in the post. I have chosen not to edit the original post because I don't want to send more than one ping, and I think editing would do that for a good number of people.

There are a lot of comments but I've answered similar questions and criticisms in replies. I realize not everybody will read every comment when there are so many, but I hope they reach most people. Best I can do is give your reply an upvote so that it gets to the top.