Currently about 5 real steem witnesses are back in the race. But given that Justin Sun + crypto exchange buddies have way more funds it feels a bit like this. Anyway, we can at least make it difficult for them to rape the steem chain. Let them throw more cryptos at it until the investment becomes unviable. You can help by setting your witness votes to actual steem witnesses or set a witness proxy to somebody you trust (like me :P).