hey @retiredinsamar I am trying to wrap my head around the same thing. While it looks like a well built project, why am I going to use 2 seperate sites when I could use one?
I know to some people who hate Youtube you can host videos at DTube but not Steemit so that's one perk but at the end of the day Youtube doesn't really take down content, they just don't allow certain types to be monetized so I don't really see any advantage there.
I tried Steepshot a while back and I had a similar complaint, why would I use it as opposed to just steemit?
One advantage I can see which you alluded to is maybe better organization of content and better search functionality as I think currently that is a huge weakness of Steemit.
Another benefit I think is that its ONLY video content. Say I'm in the mood to consume content via video and not read and not see a million photo challenge posts. I can go to DTube and only see videos and skip text and photo posts.