Why? Why do you have any hope at all considering what you’ve seen here so far?

1. They didn’t respond to or communicate with the community at all before telling everyone everything would move to Tron.
2. When the drastic measure of sf22.2 was taken to get them to communicate, they posted the same day. No mention of “hackers” or “theft” or anything negative at all. Instead of an immediate conversation right then to resolve the issue they postpone for weeks so they have time to...
3. Completely centralize the chain with a sybil attack using user funds on exchanges
4. Having clearly received an answer about the intentions of the new ninja mined stake owner (the whole point of the temporary 22.2), the group wanting to fork away from Steem grows into the majority of the community.
5. At the last minute, more than just the Steemit stake was excluded from the Hive airdrop. I argued strongly against this but was overruled by consensus. Maybe I was wrong since those excluded people seem to be unilaterally controlling Steem now.
6. Steemit starts censoring some accounts on Steemit.com
7. Steemit starts censoring some accounts on the Steemit API which now impacts other front ends like steempeak and busy because there is no community interest in running API nodes for a centrally controlled database claiming to be a blockchain.
8. Steemit inc (or at least, based on the voting patterns, with their approval) takes the final step where we are today to lock accounts on the chain level. Of 21 “witnesses” only 1 published about this code deployment (unlike 22.2 where all witnesses posted their views).

The last step is the the key. There was no recognition of the community concerns about the ninja mined stake throughout all this drama. The community was ignored. They have lied again and again and again. What happened to never freezing stake?