Your first point on the change of lock-in period of 104 weeks to 13 weeks which you claimed was 20x higher could be due to the rise in interest of crypto currencies. In fact, during 2017, the entire crypto market was on the rise, steem included.

I agree that having SP as a form of lock-in reduces liquidity. I totally agree on that. But then again, you could always choose not to power up and just keep liquidity steem. I think it's a fair for those who are investing in the steemit platform for the long term vs those who are just opportunistic.

I wonder if this is a mechanism created by dan as an experiment for EOS.