Nearly all coins are built with the scarcity model in mind in order to generate early demand for them, but it kills the use cases of coins when there are hard-caps or nearly hard-caps. I agree with what you say here, and on your stance that the inflation rate should be set higher.
The whales and witnesses on this website tend to want scarcity because they have the vast majority of what is already there, the tiny flow to the rest is not attractive enough to those in developed economies who already have plenty of ties on traditional social media, and might not be enough for even those from lower income nations once prices return to normal. The only way to fight this is if adoption becomes higher and steem itself becomes the backbone of something greater than what people envision for it now, their mindset that investments must be protected harms the ability for people to foster a mindset that it is okay to be generous.
Why vote for someone you don't know, when you can vote for someone you do know, and you only have so many votes a day? Why invest in someone's future when you have to weigh that against getting a return via leasing or botting? Why should you be tasked with helping the circulation of coins when holding them gets you so much present value?
These are questions that exist within this ecosystem and the financial system and ecosystems of the world, and we can see that by pursuing these paths of greed we are all left worse off when we begin to reap the fields we've neglected. Nurturing others and the world around us instead of taking as much as we can would grow the world so much instead of feeding the vast pools of despair that we are left to wallow in, and it saddens me to see that your opinion is such a rare one in this world.