Well it was a bubble for sure. I think most people should have seen that (for example) making $44,000 on one blog post was not something that could be sustained long-term. I did still buy in some myself pretty much at the top though, and even to this day I do not regret the decision. I think what a lot of people are just starting to find out is that the July push was not the "product launch" but was mainly intended to raise a bunch of money so they could hire people and build out the infrastructure of the site and related projects. Eventually when the site is ready to go mainstream I still believe it will be STEEM to the moon! :)
I definitely would not consider you (or myself) a sucker though. We both saw the value this platform had to offer and considered it a good investment. We also assumed others would see the same, and the price would keep going up.
I can no longer support my family on it alone
It is really too bad. There were a lot of users that I saw were planning to use Steemit as a full-time income, and I really questioned it. The marketcap of STEEM is not that much yet, and we cannot afford to pay hundreds of people $30,000 to write about what their cats and hamsters are up to. You were one of the people that was really adding a lot of value to the platform though, so I always thought of you as one of our "full time employee" bloggers. I hope we get back to the point where you can be one again.
Well, I am a writer. I write every day, so I'll be writing on perhaps different platforms, along with this. I'm looking for a decentralized home actually.