That's strange, but I've noticed that absolute number of whales and their overall stake is rising. For example 5 days earlier there were only 43 'legends' with overall stake 64.14%. Their accounts were 0.14% of all. And below you can see current distribution of steem power.
Why is this happening? One can say that with time whales control more and more percentage of overall steem power in the system. Their power is rising. I think this is not healty for the comunity as a whole because it leads to centralization of power.