Couple things:

1. Steem was always centralized even without the steemit,inc stake being included. The Top 20 Witnesses were all but decided by a small handful of the largest whales and it had been that way since day 1. Lets not kid ourselves into believing it suddenly become centralized, even without the steemit,inc stake participating.

2. Just about everything Justin has done since he acquired steemit,inc and steemit.com has been in reaction to what was done to him (freezing his stake). I'm not condoning what he did, but we will never know what his actual plans were if our centralized group of top witnesses hadn't pre-preemptively struck.

3. I don't have high hopes for steem or steemit at this point, but it is possible Justin brings million of users over from Asia and it basically starts over with a new community. It's worth sticking around just to see what his actual plans are now that he is in complete control.