"The Steempower you have earned so far with blogging has been the easiest STEEM you ever earned.
Unless you have future plans to build amazing apps like Steem Monsters you have to accept the fact that you will earn less and less Steem in the future."
Perhaps this is the reason why many of the Hot and Trending posts nowadays seem only paid without really containing value or understandable content. Steemit has become more of a marketplace than what it's supposed to be - a community.
And @exyle, I, and I know lots of bloggers here, don't want to resort to paying bots and other services just to give our original, carefully- and passionately-written content justice through higher payouts.
I'm not saying the HF20's vision is degrading and mostly "investor"-based, but what's in it for us bloggers, who can't offer anything right now yet but good content?
I hope that as this change brings more entrepreneurs and developers in, the number of users and the whole participating Steemit community also becomes bigger. I hope there are lots of things for everyone to do and participate in, and still be paid for them.