I don't think many of the largest stakeholders have any experience with business. I don't think they see that they are harming their own long term profits.

We could have the best math and the best trending and the best gizmo..

If no one knows we are alive it really doesn't matter. There are 2330 ish currencies on CoinMarketCap. How many of them do you know? How many thing do you own that you don't understand... :) We are totally just yanking our own chain. No one outside of Steem gives a shit about any of this internal fighting about the vision.