Well put.

The original idea of the "masternode" was to nurture and fund innovation.

Instead it got turned into a mob rule centrifuge that allowed morons with more Dash than sense to bulldoze all the talent and creativity out of the community in the name of ejecting contentious players.

That should have been a massive learning experience for "the masternodes". Instead it seems to simply have been a pocket emptying experience that they haven't learned anything from.