Lot's of people saying, please reconsider, and of course I agree. But, how do you do that when you just publicly announced your intent to leave? I doubt if you really feel like that's an option at this point, so I'd like to propose an alternative strategy.

You've demonstrated your value to the community and received the attention of the stakeholders now, but with an immediate exit, the community has no time to reform (which, I think, almost everyone agrees is necessary).

So, I propose that you give us a 2^nd chance, and I look at the recent post from Wikipedia cofounder, Larry Sanger, with his 9 theses for Wikipedia reformation as an example of how that might be done.

Please pick out the most urgent reforms that you think are needed and a realistic date when they must be addressed. Publish that, and if (in your sole judgment) the community has not shown sufficient intent to reform by the date you selected, then you complete your exit - as planned. Otherwise, you stay, and Steem moves in the direction where it starts cultivating integrity again.

True negotiation requires a willingness to walk away, and now that you've demonstrated both your value to the community and a willingness to walk away, I'd ask that you delay your exit for long enough to see if the community can absorb this new information and reform itself.

You've invested almost 10 years of your life here. I'm not saying you should let the sunk cost drive you forever, but maybe it's worth one try to use your influence in this way before you head out the door?

Off topic, but FWIW - whether you stay or go, I have long thought that Fundition was one of the best ideas that ever emerged here...