This topic is way over my head, but just as a thought experiment:

Would any of you stand by your statement if for some yet unknown reason, by not running a forked version of Steem would result in most of the active Steem community quitting or migrating to other blockchains?

Why do witnesses have to be faithful to a for profit company or a single individual?

I honestly want to understand the motivation here, are we working for the Steemit company or is the company working for us?