As a minnow my simple question is, Why don't everyone - community, witnesses and STEEM Inc take this opportunity to create a truly decentralized, community driven project by introducing a QA process which will be independent of the blockchain development ?

Projects like https://everipedia.org/ can be very easily be done on STEEM & there are numerous smaller projects (say https://dock.io/ ) which can be very easily implemented on STEEM as opposed to certain other PoW chains. STEEM has a very solid foundations and I think its possible to bring smart contracts & Turing Completeness to the system making it possible to become a general purpose blockchain which also supports content.

The Goals can be formulated from the witness testaments regarding HF20 written by the witnesses and numerous people.

A DAO can be created and this can do the following but not limited to it:

• help the developers to run the TESTNET
• ensure that the code has enough test coverage
• maintain the CI-CD pipeline
• generate transactions mimicing the MAIN-NET
• publish test reports on a periodic basis
• help to bring in bug bounties
• create a code of conduct
• Attempt to join various blockchain consortiums
• work with Academicians in research

A starting point can be using something like https://gitlab.com/SBCDAO/

There are numerous models like wikipedia, OpenStreetmap etc which was also able to financially succeed while being completely community driven.
This can be this project's and community's moment to glory.

Takers ?