RE: Is this the END of STEEM As We Know it? ABSOLUTELY.

I wouldn't be so quick to write steem off.
It is possible that community members step up and take back our control of the chain.

Nothing changes until a hardfork changes it.
Until then the rules are the same as up to this point.

The next two forks will determine our destinies.
Maybe the next one, already in the works, is innocuous towards users, but i wouldn't bet that the one after that will be.

Time will tell us.
Depending on what the next fork contains, i am holding off on jumping off any cliffs.