Steemit is just a stepping stone. It excels at bringing like minded people together who have some grasp on the principles behind its architecture, and these people are the future developers of protocols that will eventually obsolete Steemit as well.
But that is not to say that there is not a lot to recommend people to the Steem system. Its' genius lies in the fact that it brings money and collaboration in generating ideas together, and a means of downgrading the attempts to game the system that every other social network and cryptocurrency has as yet failed to address.
The collapse of the star-network shaped trusted third parties whose centres lie in the Central Banks, is doomed to failure. Everyone who has done any credible amount of study of the history knows that they were long ago captured, indeed founded, specifically to enable this kind of capture. It just took a long time for the consequences to become as visible as they are now.
To me, Steemit represents the beginning of finding the solutions. Far more than just tilting the field towards the neophilic, as cryptocurrency has done up to now, this expands this up to the sharing of ideas. A competitive market in ideas is the central hub of how the new way of doing things will be recorded in history. Steem will be remembered as the beginning of the new era of regulation of social interactions, which covers every branch of commerce.
People on steem are not just sharing ideas about money but also about interpersonal relationships, and even the relationship with the self.
The excitement I feel about it is because I know that this creates a level playing field that adapts and defeats attempts to game it, and advantages those who play in good faith. Life is a game, after all. Games are how we will outgrow this dark age of violence and destruction.