Great post! I agree with everything you just wrote.
I took a long pause from Steemit because I felt that I hadn't something of value to share, because of that "quality content" premise. So I went back to Facebook and such. I realized that gaining votes for money wasn't worth it. The important thing is interaction. Being social. Be heard. No one should judge if it's bad that a meme gets to trend because it isn't quality content. So we see a lot of things here that are of no interest to most people and we ask ourselves if it's really a place for us. And there's the Steemit UI that lacks some development of course.
Well, so now I decided to come back and do really what I feel is natural for me: Short thoughts, upload pictures using @share2steem, and write longer posts when i feel to.
If we want to go big, we have to keep it simple for the common user. Not trying to be like Medium.