I agree with you but you do not know what people's definition of being original is. I wrote my end of the year post and someone somewhere copied words to words including thise I mentioned and changed his own tag... trust me to that person he is veibg original.
Quality content in this context and I want to believe is why it is emphazied on here is that you should feed people "quality" articles and informative. I think this has not displaced originality in any way. Anyone could still be original while doing quality.
But if some feel they can not write like I meantioned they can video themselves talk... you must have seen @tojukaka walk on the road and talk on videos.
These tools are there and if anyone can not use the other another is there all in one blockchain- steemit.