Yeah, that felt amazing. It was so cool to see my post on top of the hot pages and high up in the trending pages for a while. It's been years since that happened. But, it also proves my point that your potential payout can change even after the "5 minute mark".

That being said, I think you are correct. I think it will take us a couple of months before we can see the real effects. Some people seems to have believed that the price of Steem would moon instantly after HF21, and I can't really understand how they believed that...

It takes time to change things. Especially when Steem has been on what seems to be a never-ending decline for a long period of time. A HF can't change that immediately. That would've been a true miracle.