You can't be so sure he's doing nothing; and like you said, this is decentralized; there's only so much he can do. The ones who can do things are the witnesses, and I'm sure they're all trying their bests to make things work.

Rome wasn't built in a day. We're still in beta. We might never be perfect, but five years from now when steem is way pass the moon, we'll probably look back on this and smile.