Steem is sadly crashing and burning in the long run, the short term has steem running on all cylinders just for the engine to explode. The price collapse will be glorious soon. Watch for the opportunity to sell.
I only have 642 and I still give a shit, my man. The size of one's wallet shouldnt dismiss someone's opinion.
Whales like to think otherwise.. they think the amount of SP means more than the actual time a person has devoted to the community. Lots of whales have downvoted me for bringing up some concerns about how the chain is going and they just started an account a year ago or two years ago.
I've been with the chain since 2016 like you, had many concerns, been through the days of Steem valued above 4$... Its heyday... It's less about me "not giving a shit" and more about an "I told you so"...
Steemit didn't want to listen to their users, Ned brought no real advancements to the Steemit website (which should have been priority, because average users won't go actively looking for different dapps), and now the minimum $0.02 to earn rewards and the massive amounts of downvoting bots are destroying the entire blockchain. I've brought my concerns about how this entire flawed system primarily benefits whales and allows them to manipulate the chain in ways that definitely leads to toxicity on the entire platform... They refused to listen and instead doubled down on giving more power to whales.
I could care more about it, but it's not really worth it at this point, now is it?
I've stopped promoting Steem on my YouTube channel, my Instagram, Facebook, etc... I've primarily stuck with Minds.com now due to all of these backwards "advancements" to the chain.
This isn't the same Steem anymore and its getting worse, not better.
Cheers.