@bleujay I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you here. I think that the life or death of a social network is directly correlated with the momentum from early adoption, user growth and retention, engagement, etc. and THOSE things (KPIs if you will, thank you @cryptoctopus) are directly tied to the vision of the founders of the platform and user-friendly characteristics. A mobile application for Steemit would be FANTASTIC (but let's take baby steps lest we run off cliffs like the dodo).
And let's be real, nobody wants Steemit to invade privacy, steal content, or manipulate their feed. But as a social network built on decentralization, it WILL have to have a centralized team that drives innovation within the platform or "Steemit 2.0" will soon emerge, do all of the things Steemit isn't doing, pull users, and R.I.P. Steemit.
"The big fish no longer eats the small fish... The fast fish now eats the slow fish."