Fundamentally [ignoring witness rewards] both steem and hive are POS type systems, only with an option to share rewards. The ability to share rewards has lead to the delusion called a proof of brain that the community values, but steemit inc has acted criminally and destroyed the community and it appears some users have allegedly ended moved to pure POS while others are having a tantrum that their delusion was shattered or that they aren't getting the big votes. Some old complaint, different actors

Even if it wasn't an option but a mandate to share rewards, nothing stops them from creating a second account and thus still sharing the rewards with themselves. Proof of stake is the True nature of Steem,

And even if steemit inc was to continue abusing their stolen stake only to downvote those treating it in it's purest POS form, they are discouraging people from holding and would hurt the supply and demand, and the value of the rewards. So said alleged "abuse" isn't a bad thing-at an economic level it is a positive thing. There may be one way to make everyone happy, but I'll leave the debate for hive should the need for a debate arrive.

The CCP is all about controlling people, and as Tron shows us controlling the market too with fake users. Control is not the ideal way to entice and maintain users. Letting them invest into your projects, let them explore new uses for it, let them criticize positively or negatively about your products, and enhance it. All steemit inc wants to do is destroy a product, Steem, which they criminally stole from the community.

Certainly Tron has excelled in using bots as marketing tools to inflate the number of users and transactions to promote Tron. But you notice when real users, and speech is involved, it is no no no, we don't want you. One of the most important people Ned Scott shooed away was Dan Larimer. Dan has since gone on, without the incompetent Ned Scott, to create EOS which is a top 10 crypto. Similarly, the leadership of steem have shooed off the other top true holders/investors. Certainly after all the criminal activity he commenced to take control of steem, it feels as though he wants to professionally distance himself from it and leave the old clowns in charge as it is being prepped for the Chinese market.

All they have left is to gift and reward asskissers to keep them going. You notice they can't argue against the hive people-they don' have the ability. They hide them, they delete them, they censor them. Steemit inc knows it is a criminal syndicate and cannot defend themselves, and doesn't want new people to know their background of stealing from the community. Stealing from the community-this is what Tron did to dlive also.

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”-George R.R. Martin.