I get what you're saying and who knows maybe the will do away with it in the front end but keep its use in the back end and provide a more simplistic version for users. This is still very much a beta and we are the test dummies for it.
I still feel that regardless of mass adoption steemit will always be an exclusionary platform by nature that is run by subsets of communities and not just a mass free for all like we see with traditional free scale based platforms.