Crypto is a small market and I agree, having too much here will turn away potential consumers. Much of the crypto crowd use bots, so they cram it down our throats and bury all of the other work. They're not concerned about things like long term thinking. If they can scrape a penny off the ground, they'll do it, even if it means that penny is holding up a wall.
On this platform, you're better off finding people instead of content. If you're into trees, nobody follows a tree, but if someone ads their personality to a post about trees, even something as bland as a post about trees can become interesting. People first, content second. If you enjoy someone's company, you'll probably enjoy their work. Also, some people have bad days, we all do. I'll still support someone if they felt like pushing out a shit post, especially if it's funny, for instance.
There's way too much steemit related content. I wrote about that the other day. I'm an artist and it seems most aren't interested in #actual-content these days. They're refusing to support it and paying attention to the steemit cheerleading warm fuzzy stuff that's outdated and pointless shortly after publishing, and also holds no value outside of the local community.
In this post, @yallapapi talks about pushing content out, to outside eyes. That's something I've done for over two years. We had a view counter at one point and some of my older posts were showing views in the thousands. They weren't advertisements. It was simply #actual-content getting passed around on other social media, by people who enjoyed it. That's the best way to attract genuine eyes to the platform without using ads. Just use interesting content and share it.