"most of what is happening and has happened has been driven by the #1 problem since day one @ned."

While @ned may indeed have failed to take the steps necessary to fix many of Steemit's problems, he did not create many of them. What @ned failed to do was foresee the massive problems being created by Steemit witnesses, and take the steps necessary to fix the problems in their early stages before they got so out of hand. Those are the problems that JS is now taking steps to correct.