But we are here discussing an option that is absolutely and undeniably available to Steemit.inc to do with as they wish

Yes and for the second and last time I'm giving my opinion on whether and under what conditions it is beneficial to the platform to do that.

If they didn't want our opinions they wouldn't even be making these posts, they would just deploy whatever features they want and that would be that.

You are willing to give us more power on your platform??? I will take it!

This is exactly the sort of mindset that results in people self-voting and vote-selling to the detriment of any value the platform might have in terms of content discovery or incentivized growth. It is a myopic view that puts ones own short term interests ahead of the success of Steem. The end result is you're able to take advantage of the freedom of all these great options made available to you but it won't matter because Steem will continue circling the drain until it eventually enters it.

I'm more interested in looking at the systemic effects and whether they are overall good or bad for the platform, and I don't think this is unconditionally good. Apparently a lot of other people don't either.

Some features somewhat like this can be usefully offered without doing more harm than good but the reality is more nuanced than just "give maximum power to content creators". There has to be a balance.