Agreed entirely! Everybody mistakenly seems to think the panacea here is sheer numbers... and it is NOT.
I wrote a piece (or maybe I just wrote a draft... I forget) about two YouTubers i know... one has 1.2 million subscribers, and the other under 100,000. And yet, the guy with less than 1/10th the number of subscribers gets about 20X more views per video... because he built his subscriber base around actual human social connections, over a really long time.
And don't get me started on the "resource credits" fiasco...
..just to get you started on the RC's...lol
I cannot see for the life of me, how this place will ever grow without changing the system.
....I used an account I hadn't touched for while, a couple of weeks back ( 18 steem in it, I think).
I made one post upvoted 3 or 4 times, and made a few comments - like3 or 4 - and that was it - I was done!
I had to wait until next day - and then I could only do a few comments...bizarre system to attract users.
'Join steemit, the social media platform - and then we'll penalize you for being social!'
lol