Yes most people were up in arms about it, yet the experiment was meant to last a couple of weeks and it extended for a couple of months if not more and numerous people who were against it changed their tune mere days later. Your confirmation bias is showing btw:
https://steemit.com/whale-experiment/@benjojo/the-whale-experiment-orca-support
There are more I'm sure but I literally picked the first one (after I typed the quip about confirmation bias to you) out of the results:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Whale+experiment+steemit&ia=web
I told you to look back, I didn't say look only for what tickles your bias. In that thread I linked I'm right there in the comments commending the efforts of both abit and smooth and spelling out why it is a success, but it was a success because it empowered people and because it demonstrated that the large stakeholders aren't idiots and understand why people want to power up, and it's not when they see reward pool rape and such faggotries. I wasn't the only one, I'm positive that every single one were adamantly against it completely changed their tune days later, and I knew that because I was there and read their comments and posts.
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I'm not biased for or against the so-called experiment. You asked me to search for it and the first thing that popped up on Steem results was chaos and people quitting over it. That is why I asked for your opinion in the first place, because you claimed it was a success, and I wondered why. Clearly your claims that everyone approved of it were demonstrably false, and I still haven't seen anything in the way of data on how or why it was a success, only that a certain subset of people approved of and are cheerleaders for it. Expecting large accounts to act in concert for the good of the community rather than self interest is naive in my opinion, and I don't think anyone is prepared for the chaos that will be unleashed with free downvotes, but I hope that I'm wrong and you are right.
If it was such a success, why do you think the "experiment" was discontinued?
The STEEM blockchain is for all intents and purposes controlled by Steemit Inc. They implement whatever changes they want, moderate/censor their front-end, and control almost all the coding that is merged. Only in the last month did they start merging community code requests, but really nobody knows how many of the anonymous developer, marketing, and witness accounts they actually control on here.