Great post. I feel that you are spot on with this. In fact, I just wrote a post of my experiences, which seem quite similar to yours (I swear I didn't copy you though, I wrote it before I saw your post... I just waited to post... because timing is everything :D)
By the way, can you access the steem slack? says it's in maintenance for me.
The Slack signup page been down since the hack.
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