The problem is that our beloved platform is owned by robber barons!
(Some of whom are really nice)
I'm sure you and I could figure out a solution but my concern is that the truly wealthy STEEM owners are not as interested as we might be.
So, like in "real" life we pick our battles. If we're smart we only pick the ones we can win. I'm still looking for ANY related to STEEM that "insignificants" like us have any hope of simply influencing, much less winning.
More specifically, around 100 folks own like 90% of all STEEM. (My stats are from memory so I might be off a bit). It's like me trying to influence Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, etc.

Oh, by the way, I'm an optimist, really! ;-)

More specifically, these stakeholders along with the top witnesses can literally write code to stop haijin from doing what he's doing; but the problem is the stake holders don't want to impose that kind of control because it would also stop them from doing what they're doing. Theses stakeholders are here because they expect to make money, a lot of money. Why would they want to jeopardize their investments?

PS - After reading more of the comments there seems to be a very naive notion concerning how crypto currencies actually work and how a very few profit by them. Understand that making money from cryptos have NOTHING to do with a social media platform like steemit.com. It is just one of many "services" sitting on top of the blockchain with the SOLE purpose of building "credibility" (i.e acceptance) in the underlying crypto. Think SilkRoad and BitCoin.