I've written some stuff that is pretty critical of the current mechanical situation on both Steemit and the STEEM blockchain in general (which you can read as much of his you like by going to my profile and then looking at my Comments tab), but the obsession with "chasing the Dragon" as I put it leads to some really unhealthy community behaviors. Along with the Whale Wars (organized groups of high Steem Power users and swarms of bots who have ideological differences with one another and get into down vote wars, with average users caught in the middle).
It would be a great set up for an RPG if it wasn't so horribly real. (In fact, I think FreeMarket even fails to capture the true dystopian nature of it.)
There is some talk about implementing Communities as an inherent part of the way that the interface works and that will help a lot – if it ever happens. Until then we can sort of use the tools that we have to discover and re-steem content that we like. That's about all we can do.