While businesses may use the blockchain in various ways, Steemit.com will likely be a large part of it on a user-level at some point.
That is not the idea and for a very good reason. I predict that five years from now Steemit.com will be forgotten. It's a minimum viable product, a prototype, it's nowhere near in functionality or design modern where web applications need to be. It's a primitive web interface to the blockchain that was the first of its kind to succeed the command line client used by the hard core nerds who came here first.
The masses love apps that look and feel fantastic and function smoothly. They don't care about blockchains. The native token system on top of the app functionality is a big bonus.
All fair points. Thanks for engaging. I'd imagine this interface is as how you feel and will be because of how the company treats it. If it saw the interface as an invaluable means of staying connected to people/businesses/future businesses (even as a marketing platform), because the company will need all of this to be relevant and have value in the future, perhaps we'd be much further along on the roadmap and it wouldn't need to be deemed as a vestigial stepping stone. It's much harder to get new customers than retain current ones, and this site is the medium for achieving this for the foreseeable future. First impressions and ongoing reputation are priceless when more competition will be along in due time.