great post, I think HF19 will change a lot in the ecosystem over time, much more than just the shock value of people noticing their retroactive changes on pending rewards this has a significant impact on the growth rate of dedicated new people, so they actually stand a chance to accellerate up the ladder without attracting the votes of whales specifically. My biggest problem with steemit has been that posts go from 0-100 very fast because so many 0.01 votes then suddenly some huge vote and whale resteem to other big people, it was almost like a big game of luck before but now there's a good baseline where everyone has a bit of voting power. I think HF19 is extremely good ^_^