Exactly, but it's not worrying about abuse that impelled HF21. It's encouraging profiteering, and pleb newbs have no stake to plunder, so are excluded from benefitting from curation post HF21. It's not an example of any consideration of increasing user onboarding and retention. It's simply pretending Steem has any value without a market to create that value. Profiteers are extracting more and more Steem by stake weighting as it becomes worth less and less as the market for it contracts.

It is so obvious to me that I am half convinced it's deliberate. Exchanges are dropping Steem. How long can this go on before Steem and Golos are entombed side by side in the dustbin of history, has beens in the contest for market share?