I've just accepted that I'll be locked out of my account until late afternoon every day. Doubling my steem power, posting and upvoting less has had little impact - I like to think I'm posting good content and interacting well with people instead of spamming, so it's discouraging to write a big post and then have to wait most of the day to reply to comments.
I'd like to know what can be done to help out the situation, because Steemit won't grow well if the system prevents people from interacting freely without putting in several hundred dollars worth of SP.