Funny you should mention @steempeak. i just discovered them yesterday in fact.
Definitely feel the UX is much better than base steemit as a first impression and yeah I'm hooked on the dashboard page.
Although as much as I love data and graphs it is a little depressing seeing how low some of the lines are on the charts LOL. I'm not here 100% of the payouts, as you said, whats a few pennies or even a dollar day, but of course the hope/dream is to make it big but thats a lottery ticket for another time LOL