'run by' , you say ? .... that might be right but they're just nodes

'developed by' ? afaik thats steemit ... excluding a few (d)apps running on it development of the actual chain is steemit and steemit alone , proposals might be given but the witness system is crooked, there's no way of knowing someone doesnt have 5000 accounts ... you can check how many of the auto-downvoters atm are voting on an account named puncakbukit for instance and afaik witness decisions on development are not hardcoded in any way

all you need is enough nodes to continue, the fact that there's 50 or 20 who have 'decision rights' is nowhere written in stone, thats consensus (i think it used to be 50)

i have no idea what they told the guy, lol ... i was hoping for change but it seems there will be none
afaik its just possible that the dutch guy, aggroed and ultimatt already made ultimata threatening to close down if a migration happened

but in essence, to function it does not need any of them or i must be missing something seriously missing and im not sure if its better off with or without

no change is no change ... so if everything stays the same then nothing changes which means actually there's nothing interesting going on

but i did get suckered into making a few comments

too many for my own liking

im gonna have to see something other than 4year old custom json with a nametag on it or something thats been on the shelves and talked about for years 'now suddenly appearing in two weeks' to be interested but actually

i dont really matter to this puddle either :)

all in all, other than the happy few who got to sell off during the 48hour bump

nothing actually happened