My concern goes beyond the 'bear' market. Our coin market cap rank has dropped significantly, and it seems to be continuing to go in the downward direction. In terms of the conversations that I have with existing and potentially new stakeholders - there is little reason for people to invest in STEEM at this point.

Is there any plans afoot to promote the heck out of the new FCAS score?... that moved us from what D to A? Puts us 12th in their ranking.

Would seem cause to shift the needle on reason to invest. Without some waving the flag on that move it wont even get noticed.

but I see the risk of waiting to fix our broken economy until after SMTs are done a much more significant risk.

Maybe that needs to be explained a bit more? I don't necessarily agree there is a broken economy. But, what is the relevance of making the changes before SMTs?

I'm seeing references to the testnet not being up and working. Is the testnet going to be functioning and running for at least a month before the HF as I've seen talked about? To avoid the mess of HF20?

There is already good contributors heading for the door. Anything even looking like the mess of HF20 will send more in the same direction.