Well, I've heard about Steemit not being the "end of the road" many, many times and I've actually started to think about it more and more these last few weeks...
Steemit feels more or less dead, but that's not the same thing as Steem is dead. I still believe that Steem will be extremely powerful with time. Steemit on the other hand, the blogging platform, is so far downhill now, so I doubt it will ever come back to life.
Lack of leadership. That's what brought us here. One can talk all about how awesome Ned and STINC is for this or that, but they have ignored Steemit for a very long time...
Steemit was probably never the end goal for them, and we, the active users remaining here, are the ones who'll suffer the most.
I still can't understand why they rely on the users on this falling platform to vote, instead of just paying the $30K fee. Even though I'm curious, I still voted 4 times.
I share your thoughts as we have spoken on this many times. At least we are 11 for 11 and have at least a little active community each week helping the next guy.