"I can't believe this kid gets to keep playing his little games considering all the shit he's pulled."

I am mystified that you seem to not note that it's the same game he plays by the same rules wherever he plays. Wherever stake alone asserts governance, stake will govern. Until cryptos actually deliver to their communities that power, they will continue to be captured. Sun Yuchen captured Steem by buying stake. Hive escaped by abandoning Steem, and just recreating it without Sun's stake being in his hands.

But Hive retains the very mechanism by which Steem was captured. Nothing but stake governs Hive today, and as long as the majority stakeholders seek their own profits above the security of the community that is the source of that profit, they are as vulnerable to being captured as they are able to capture ROI.

While Hive remains the best platform available (because our oligarchs are benevolent overlords), it is not, at least not yet, the platform that will be the best available in the long run, because it is simple to take from the community. As simple as buying enough stake to install a consensus of witnesses, exactly as was done to Steem. That mechanism is effected through witness voting, which specifically enables colluding stakeholders to elect a slate of witnesses through weighting 30 witness votes with 100% of the stake of the voters. This is much different from ordinary voting on Hive, or Steem, and the ability to collude to install a slate of witnesses delivers to an attacker the ability to simply gain enough stake to replace the consensus - or keep it as it is.

Yuchen took Steem from the community, so we made Hive, but doing so we lost a significant percentage of the investment in Steem. When the time comes, Hive is just as easy to take as was Steem, and if again there's a fork, a significant percentage of the investment in Hive will be lost to the forkers. The 30 day wait on the ability of an account to vote on governance is irrelevant, because rather than purchasing stake, the new overlord(s) can just require extant stakeholders to vote that stake as directed and only close such acquisition after 30 days.

Changing witness voting to splitting 100% of VP across 30 witnesses would equalize the effect of stake on governance for all stakeholders, but that is contrary to the interests of the extant oligarchy.

It's curious the mechanism by which Yuchen has gained control of these pseudo-decentralized platforms escapes your notice, or at least your comment, particularly given that Hive remains utterly vulnerable to that exact play, and only exists because Steem fell by it.

Thanks!