As someone who's very new to Steemit, this might be random nonsense coming outta nowhere, but anyway:
I think steemit has a lot of value. Social media sites are dominating in terms of users and user engagement. Crypto is also rising fast, with more and more people getting involved, either through easy-to-use exhanges like Coinbase, through mining with their gaming-pc, or just by reading up on news.
Steemit is such a unique product that touches on two huge things at once. With site engagement literally making users money, I dont see why anyone would not use, or at least try Steemit.
Sure there are some hurdles to overcome, like the extreme bot spam, content theft, and low effort spam, but with a slowly rising userbase I can only see one way for Steemit to go, and thats up!