There was a thread posted the other day, you should check it out
https://steemit.com/steemit/@chitty/your-voices-have-been-heard-steem-0-14-0-will-improve-voting-rewards

They are fixing the issue with the whales controlling everything. So I guess it is a step in the right direction.

Overall this is a pretty innovative platform that they are creating, nobody has done something like this before. So you can't expect them to have this down perfect on the first try, since they don't have anything to base this on. And I am glad that the starting people are making money of this, if it were not for their effort, we would not have this site today.

Have you ever tried launching a site, community or any kind of business? Let's just say it is a lot harder to make it successful than people think. So the fact that they have gotten this far, and random people get paid is fucking amazing and I applaud the original founders :)