I'm not a witness but I agree with what you just said. Yesterday, I was on Steem.chat thinking that it was the best place to get updates on the issue and what we got as answers was: "relax and wait for further instructions", just imagine one of the major centralized service saying that kind of stuff to their users... I don't think that anyone at Stinc realize that they have a huge community behind them and I don't think that a few messages posted here or there with a few words giving the status of the issue would have hurt anyone...

Also, still, we are waiting for the real reason of this halt... (unless you know c++ and read the commits from @abit, good luck to figure out what was the problem)

I believe in this blockchain, even though I'm not a big stakeholder, I work everyday for Steem, to bring new features and ideas, hopefully the new comers won't look too much at Steem's history...