Let's try to learn something from this: it's not a good thing to give a lot of power to unknown people whose loyalty is also unknown. This is what happened when the blockchain was launched and random people had a chance to mine steem for free.
Next time somebody launches a new blockchain they should give power to only a small group of people who can be trusted to work for the ecosystem until it is mature. Otherwise there will be problems.
RE: Whales upvoting chosen accounts crap for the rewards is one thing, attacking the rewards of a genuinely productive account is utter madness