I'm new to Steemit, but I looked on a bit from the sidelines. And I have to say, your analysis seems spot on.
I've had some experience with these types of people (let's call them SJW's, sure, why not) in my daily life as quite an outspoken person about social issues, mostly men's rights. I won't go further into details, because they are not relevant for this exact issue.
Point is however, I have noticed that some people just can't handle any success that, in their eyes, seems undeserved. They will go any length to discreted the person they don't agree with. At some point they are beyond arguing the point, but about yelling slogans and eventually applying backhanded power plays to try and get what they want.
That is, just like you said, because this isn't about what's best for Steemit. But about who gets to call the shots. They see everything (and I mean everything) as part of a power structure. They are the real authoritarians, the real dictators hiding in the shadows. All in the name of 'the greater good'. It's disgusting.
Very accurate my friend. Proud to have followed you. These people need to read https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
or......
Fountainhead
Haven't read that one, although I own it. Really enjoyed "Atlas Shrugged" though, and gave dozens of copies of "The Anthem" to family one year a while back. Would have given "Atlas Shrugged" as I liked it better, but at over a thousand page I figured I'd go with something that they might read.
You know, nobody ever said thanks or discussed it. Oh well, we have to try...
I found "Atlas Shrugged" to be a lesser book. It is of course the second greatest work of modern literature. But The Fountainhead made me shake. I sometimes read during my meals and one day I couldn't even eat my food properly as my hands were shaking too much because of the sheer intensity of the novel. It has not happened before or since.
Also Fountainhead gave me much more laughs than Atlas Shrugged (I have a peculiar sense of humor as I found Sherlock S3 EP1 first 15 mins to be funnier than the entire length of Deadpool.)
Atlas Shrugged was actually started out as a way to explain what Fountainhead was all about in the first place and IMO it showed. It's the single most intense book ever written to my knowledge.
Nice, thanks! It's somewhere in storage right now but I'm now more motivated to dig it out.
Or, just get it for the Kindle. :)