Yes, I understand the reasoning and I saw how many witnesses run the new soft fork version.

The problem still remains.

You guys chose the coercive measure by holding his stake hostage against the harder solution which didn't depend entirely on you and it cost money and it meant persuading people not to sell but instead buy STEEM and power up and vote for top witnesses.

That is how free market works and, since Ned sold Steemit along with its stake, that would have been a measure I would have fully supported.

Because yes, I don't want Steem's governance to become centralized, but unfortunately you guys showed us DPOS is lacking severely as well, through this secret soft fork.