I go over there once every three, four weeks to keep the dust off my account. You are right it looks nothing like it use to. Justin Sun isn't there anymore from my understanding. He still owns it but he went off to be an ambassador or something like that to some country. Edicted was saying the other day that Dan Laimer (I probably have the last name wrong) is working on some new project that is suppose to merge steem with a couple other cypto's. How that all plays out for the platform over there I have no idea.
Yeah, JS went to live in a tax haven.
Larimer is always working on a project and he will generally get some hype around it, but will leave soon after. Perhaps if he had put more effort into Steem, it would have done okay, but EOS made him much more money.