Makes sense, thanks for sharing, I, however, am way past my bedtime and have stayed up a bit too long :D, thank you very much for the elaboration. I for one have seen how the community formed and then dissolved. There was much talk, huge payouts, huge supporters, lots of interactions between the community and then, silence, lots and lots of posts, people seem to have their brains wiped, nobody knows. Everybody is just going along with what is on the table.
For me personally, that isn't enough and having less people and less of that jives that let me not care for months about whether I was making money off this platform because back then I had people to look up to, a new platform to explore and experiment on. Now I've moved past the "welcome" page and since I've dived head first into creating and so on, just to get my power from .60$ Acc value(wondering where my rewards were for 2 months of upvotes :D, if only somebody told me I was being stupid :D ).
And what do I see, politics again, power plays, as you've said, Game Theory on a large scale, people playing the field, Curation mining, good ideas getting left out and the usual repetitive and unoriginal content going top trending.
Is it just me or am I seeing what isn't there :D, it used to be I didn't have to care about pizzagate making top trending, then it was steemsports, now it's flag wars and polarized "groups" people staying in their corner. Repeating their "mantras". Seems like the dream of what Steemit can be and the ideology aren't living up to the expectations.
It seems like Steemit already had it's moment, the 5 seconds of fame, and now it's old news and a broken platform.
It's not all bad, but there is much around here I'm not sure should stay past Beta, I for one, would call this Alpha still, hope developers don't rush and return to the past form. The platform seemed different back them. It had breathed new hope into social medias for me, gave a place where everyone was free to share and money weren't the only thing that was important, people were, not things.