Absolutely there is much to learn from DASH, it has been very successful, and is absolutely poised to knock Bitcoin off of its pedestal. We were once very much on the radar, but allowed ourselves to be face-palmed down the ladder, and all the infighting and nonsense has not helped.

@j3dy said it best in comments above .. there is no allowance for STEEM-based developers (which we very much need, more than anything else) .. some of the brightest folks (and not so much) have been hired .. or rather disappeared, by STEEMIT Inc. - nice they are getting paid, but .. for what exactly? :) The rest of us (relatively few) daily active users are left to survive a very messed up environment - bot infestation and whale war cross-fire.

It is so weird .. I prefer discord chat to steemit.chat, because a game dev group I belong to is there, and it has great features - because of this, I am deemed a member of the discord "gang"? WHAT THE FUCK!? LOL

Anyway, after HF 17 goes through, I very much hope it is followed by some announcements.