You are making a false dicotomy here.
The choice is not between darknet anarchist and professional corporate block producers.

There is a middle ground in which both Bitcoin and Steem sit: regular people, law abiding citizens of nations all around the world. What the US Constitution refers to as "We The People".
The fact that Bitcoin allows regular people to be block producers has not stopped legitimate businesses adopting it.

DPOS is essentially stake based representative democracy. If only big corporations can be elected to the parliament then there is a problem.

The second issue is that compliance is about what you DO not WHO you are.
Steem is compliant because the vast majority of what it is used for is legitimate activities.
EOS is not compliant because the vast majority of what it is used for is illegal gambling.