Its super lame you are justifying and encouraging their centralized position.

we're talking about the community helping with the front-end website.. so many amazingly talented developers in this community that have been cast aside by steemit to make 100 renditions of the steemit website rather than improve this one that hasn't changed in over a year.

have responsibilities acknowledge by us, if things go wrong due to contributed code, we will still come out and hold them responsible

FALSE!!!

They have 0 responsibility to users of the platform, and we have 0 power except to vote with our feet, or forking. Unfortunately for most, this system is so complicated by the time anyone learns how fucked it is they are invested too deep to get out.