But just because you're a good person doesn't mean you know what's best or understand what it's like to feel pleased about a post worth 3 Steem. That's the reality for most good users.

If you want to scroll back to the beginning of my posts (3 years ago) you will realize the incorretness of this statement. I started out just like every other minnow and worked my ass off posting and building a following. My "graveyard" of posts that I spent hours on and made nothing is likely 10 times as big as most of the people complaining about not earning enough on posts.

Just speaking for myself, the platform doesn't seem broken the way witnesses talk about it. I get there are abuses, but they seem like they require attention, not EIP.

Every single "regular user" I have recruited to the platform has left because it sucked. Every single "investor" that I have tried to get to invest has not put any money into the platform. My experiences are not isolated. Sure, there are a rare few who stick around or invest money - but the platform is not going to scale in it's current form.

Again, I wish we could have had real conversations with users on chain.

There have been thousands of conversations between witnesses and regular users prior to approving this. We have likely heard every single argument that you are going to make against it, and responded somewhere. Part of the problem is that this is a decentralized platform, and these conversations are happening all over the place - comments sections of the hundreds of posts about the hardfork, podcast interviews, discord, steem.chat, etc. You seem to think that because we are moving forward that we just haven't heard the arguments against it, and we are ignorantly running off a cliff. It is really more that we have heard all the arguments, listened to all of them, and this is what we decided.