has done nothing but suck whale dick for three years and use various vote and delegation scheming to essentially self-vote his "company" posts for 2.5 years

Don't hate the player man.

The economics have been broken and he took advantage of what was offered.

The free downvotes and higher curation split in HF21 are really the first positive steps that have ever been taken to try to fix the broken economics that @thecryptodrive and others have exploited. Sad that it has taken three years to do anything at all, and it may still be too little, but better late than never I guess.