Well said. I believe also that SMTs will bring alot of new people to the steem block chain. This is shown and expressly talked about in the steemit white paper by @ned, which can be found here https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/announcing-smart-media-tokens-smts
The whitepaper is long, like 50 pages so i will give a little summary in few words for those who don't love reading lengthy stuff like me.
In 2018,through SMTs, Services that use "upvotes" or "likes" will be able to have their tokens working same as upvotes here on steemit. So if some big website decides to pay users for comments, votes or whatever automatically, from now on they will be able to do that. Their users wont even know something called STEEM is below the token they earn. This way companies will be kind of white-labeling their tokens using STEEMs blockchain.
This shows you how big steem can become, and simultaneously the steemit site and all other sites related to steem.
It would be surely wisdom to invest in steem, knowing the impending explosion and expansion coming. All the best.