The answer, as many good UX designer might tell you, is that 'it depends'. I don't doubt that many people have found their steemit journey much easier and more enjoyable after spending more time on Discord in the various teams/groups, but some people don't interact in that way and therefore shouldn't be excluded(or disadvantaged) from the experience of content creation or curation simply because they prefer to go at it alone.
At the end of the day, it is important to define the problem you want to solve in order that an optimal solution can be proposed. Whales curating assumes that people with most voting influence knows quality content from profitable ones (sound like a senior manager at a company?), dolphins creating assumes that people who have been around a bit continues to create valuable content and have incentives to do so, and minnows commenting assumes that people new to the platform contribute best by learning rather than doing. Some of these assumptions may be true and some not... it just depends on what you see and what you think the problems are.
So where does that leave us? I guess that depends on if this makes any sense to you :p
You are right on with your analysis, experience good or bad is completely dependent on what you need/want out of the platform of course. I guess, if we were to analyze these issues and possible solutions and come up with a bell curve type result, we might find that the approach proposed works most of the
time.
I'm not saying that a fork might not address these issues down the road, it might, with that being said, what can we do today, meaning you and me... what can we do, if we want to help our friends jump on here and succeed. I guess that's the idea behind these thoughts today... as well as reporting on the little wolfpack experiment we have been running.
thank you for your comment.. ;)
I think a few of us are thinking about doing something as well, and it just takes a critical mass for something to start moving. I have had conversations with @davemccoy, and I really like what @mudcat36 is doing by getting out there and meeting people. @son-of-satire has also mentioned about doing something too. I have only been posting ideas but I think it will take more action and less talk to make it happen. Either way, it is definitely better having more people trying to make these necessary changes rather than individuals doing it alone - steemit allows us to leverage each other's skills and knowledge and make direct impact, so we should make use of it.