I have to second this opinion! It seems that the whole point of this conflict has been completely avoided and nothing useful has actually come from it. Whether or not his posts are 100 or 50/50 he is still taking a massive share of the reward pool, not to mention how much of the front page is dominated by him (and even Google Now like you say).

It just seems like the situation was avoided and not confronted... Not properly anyway. I guess the bit that annoyed me the most was how so many of the powerful whales were just willing to sit there and do literally nothing. A few made comments about it (indirectly), or referenced it, but nearly none actually acted against it (on whichever side they believed in).

People want to avoid conflict, I get that. But sometimes you have to actually fight for your beliefs and rights sadly.

This whole conflict has just been stupid, and in the end there isn't even a useful or beneficial outcome? What does this show for the future of Steemit?