How many disgruntled developers disappear with it though is my concern..
We're sending a pretty fucked up message to the greater crypto community in that a couple individuals control enough influence on the DPOS consensus system we have here that they effectively veto any sort of community consensus that could have possibly taken place, had the run away break of civilization of the top 20's stake been spread over 5000 accounts instead of 5 this woudln't be an issue.. But alas majority of the ones in top 20 positions were either grandfathered in from Bitshares or had significant crypto holdings to allow them not to sell off any HIVE and create a massive disparity of voting power within the community.
I guess we shall see how it plays out.
Can't wait till I'm king of my own sidechain with it's own DAO funding that will operate under a 1 vote is 1 vote architecture removing the whole pay to win aspect of DPOS chains and flipping it on it's head, leveling the playing field between the "haves" and the "have nots" :/