I wonder if Steem is going to manage to work through all of the issues that it is having with reward payouts, and with how some of the more prevalent bots are destroying the foundation upon which the system is built, by skewing all the voting power to the whales that just upvote each others posts.
Based on what I've been reading and seeing, Steem is going to be a risky investment as long as they leave these things unaddressed. Being able to game the system that easily means that there are some fundamental flaws in the system that I hope they are working to fix.