Yes, a step at a time sounds like a sensible approach. There is the Steem Power factor yet there is also the court of popular opinion. Embarrassing the witnesses into change if you will. If this is a ponzi sheme by big stake holders, as @dan may have realized, then those that believe in breaking that monopoly should be ready for a real hard fork (not the STINC kind) to make things right.

My interest here is the tech, having used Bitcoin to buy Minnowhood not blog posting. It is my belief that solutions found here will influence an untold amount of blockchain applications of the future. There is no emotional investment in this particular version for me.

Most users will want a more graded weighting to rewards, especially as more users are chasing after the ever shrinking reward pool. There is no way for this platform from stopping folks from advertising a new platform on this one. A real fork would mean that users could start on the new version with their same funds and keys. STINC is very vunerable to good competition.

Anyway, hopefully it need never come to that.