Thanks for your comment.
@trumpan has just posted an awesome article on 'communities' within steemit, which are supposed to act similar to subreddits. This feature would allow segregated fields of content which appeal to the relevant people. This way you wouldn't care or even notice the posts which don't add 'value' to your life, because everyone would stay isolated to their own communities.
The trouble at the moment is that the tags are not specific enough, so, posts which take 10-15 minutes to create, with little creativity and effort are sometimes rising above other posts which may take days to research and write, within a tag. I have a problem with this in particular.
There could then be communities of pictures and memes, communities for research articles, etc. This would ensure that everyone will get fair recognition for what they provide to their niche community.