About low acceptance of PRs. You are doing pretty good job even if you don't consider yourself as a PR.
By PR i mean Pull-requests on Github. Not Public relations. Not sure if I got you correctly here.
Independent one's who care about steemit need to work like you.
Yes. But it's not easy. I use up a lot of my funds doing that but only because it has the potential to help people. Then there are trolls who want to disrupt India specific community building.